Thermal Performance Curves Are Shaped by Prior Thermal Environment in Early Life.

ABSTRACT: Understanding links between thermal performance and environmental variation is necessary to predict organismal responses to climate change, and remains an ongoing challenge for ectotherms with complex life cycles. Distinct life stages can differ in thermal sensitivity, experience different environmental conditions as development unfolds, and, because stages are by nature interdependent, environmental effects can carry over from one stage to affect performance at others. Thermal performance may therefore respond to carryover effects of prior thermal environments, yet detailed insights into the nature, strength, and direction of those responses are still lacking. Here, in an aquatic ectotherm whose early planktonic stages (gametes, embryos, and larvae) govern adult abundances and dynamics, w

SUBMITTER: Rebolledo AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8564010 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature