ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021
Plasticity of Performance Curves in Ectotherms: Individual Variation Modulates Population Responses to Environmental Change.
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- Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Intraspecific variation in muscle growth of two distinct populations of Port Jackson sharks under projected end-of-century temperatures.Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology · 2023Article
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- Physiological Performance Curves: When Are They Useful?Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Many ectothermic animals can respond to changes in their environment by altering the sensitivities of physiological rates, given sufficient time to do so. In other words, thermal acclimation and developmental plasticity can shift thermal performance curves so that performance may be completely or partially buffered against the effects of environmental temperature changes. Plastic responses can thereby increase the resilience to temperature change. However, there may be pronounced differences between individuals in their capacity for plasticity, and these differences are not necessarily reflected in population means. In a bet-hedging strategy, only a subsection of the population may persist under environmental conditions that favour either plasticity or fixed phenotypes. Thus, experimental approaches that measure means across individuals can not necessarily predict population responses to temperature change. Here, we collated published data of 608 mosquitofish (
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