ArticleNature communications2016
Physiological constraints to climate warming in fish follow principles of plastic floors and concrete ceilings.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- How plastic are upper thermal limits? A comparative study in tsetse (family: Glossinidae) and wider Diptera.Journal of thermal biology · 2023Pooled it
- Comparative assessment of thermal tolerance in rabbitfish (Siganus fuscescens) following acclimation to two different temperatures.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2026Article
- Climate change impacts on fish in the Baltic Sea.Journal of fish biology · 2026Review
- Impacts of predator odours and conspecific disturbance cues on minnow thermal tolerance.Journal of fish biology · 2026Article
- Integrated Physiological and Transcriptomic Analyses Suggest Key Adaptive Mechanisms of European Perch (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Aerobic scope is sustained through a heatwave in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).Journal of fish biology · 2026Article
- These Boots Are Made for Walking: Sex-Specific Physiological and Metabolomic Strategies Reflect Male-Skewed Vulnerability to Ocean Warming in a Keystone Amphipod.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Increased heart rate and blood oxygen extraction are key to the ability of schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus) to swim maximally at high temperatures.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Brown trout (Salmo trutta) originating from warmer streams in Iceland exhibit increased energetic efficiency.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Heat Tolerance and Its Plasticity in Freshwater and Marine Fishes Reflect Exposure to Extremes and Seasonal Variation in Habitat Temperatures.Ecology letters · 2026Review
- The thermodynamic opportunities hypothesis: Metabolic temperature insensitivity across flatfish species.Science advances · 2026Article
- Heat but Not Cold Tolerance Is Phylogenetically Constrained in Greenlandic Terrestrial Arthropods Under Future Global Warming.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Thermal effects on feeding efficiency and body condition in invasive and native benthivorous freshwater fishes.Biological invasions · 2026Article
- Are Hibernators Toast? Global Climate Change and Prolonged Seasonal Hibernation.Global change biology · 2026Review
- The relevance and application of measures of thermal tolerance to fish ecology, conservation and aquaculture.Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Thermal acclimation and meal item shape postprandial aerobic performance in the American lobster (Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Life History and Smoltification Shape Genomic Signatures of Thermal Tolerance in Chinook Salmon.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Intra- and inter-specific differences of upper thermal limits in the sand darters (Percidae:Conservation physiology · 2026Review
- Plasticity in climate change responses.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- A Double Challenge for Fish: The Combined Stress of Warming and Pharmaceuticals in Aquatic Systems.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
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Abstract
Understanding the resilience of aquatic ectothermic animals to climate warming has been hindered by the absence of experimental systems experiencing warming across relevant timescales (for example, decades). Here, we examine European perch (Perca fluviatilis, L.) from the Biotest enclosure, a unique coastal ecosystem that maintains natural thermal fluctuations but has been warmed by 5-10 °C by a nuclear power plant for over three decades. We show that Biotest perch grow faster and display thermally compensated resting cardiorespiratory functions compared with reference perch living at natural temperatures in adjacent waters. However, maximum cardiorespiratory capacities and heat tolerance limits exhibit limited or no thermal compensation when compared with acutely heated reference perch. We propose that while basal energy requirements and resting cardiorespiratory functions (floors) are thermally plastic, maximum capacities and upper critical heat limits (ceilings) are much less flexible and thus will limit the adaptive capacity of fishes in a warming climate.
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