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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Non-climatic thermal adaptation: Implications for species' responses to climate warming
Biology Letters, Volume 6, No. 5, Year 2010
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There is considerable interest in understanding how ectothermic animals may physiologically and behaviourally buffer the effects of climate warming. Much less consideration is being given to how organisms might adapt to non- climatic heat sources in ways that could confound predictions for responses of species and communities to climate warming. Although adaptation to non-climatic heat sources (solar and geothermal) seems likely in some marine species, climate warming predictions for marine ectotherms are largely based on adaptation to climatically relevant heat sources (air or surface sea water temperature). Here, we show that non-climatic solar heating underlies thermal resistance adaptation in a rocky-eulittoralfringe snail. Comparisons of the maximum temperatures of the air, the snail's body and the rock substratum with solar irradiance and physiological performance show that the highest body temperature is primarily controlled by solar heating and re-radiation, and that the snail's upper lethal temperature exceeds the highest climatically relevant regional air temperature by approximately 22°C. Non-climatic thermal adaptation probably features widely among marine and terrestrial ectotherms and because it could enable species to tolerate climatic rises in air temperature, it deserves more consideration in general and for inclusion into climate warming models. © 2010 The Royal Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Marshall, David J.
Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
McQuaid, Christopher David
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Williams, Gray A.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong
Statistics
Citations: 107
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233
ISSN:
17449561
e-ISSN:
1744957X
Research Areas
Cancer
Environmental