Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/740125

#ThermalTolerance #Macroevolution #EEB

#OceanOptimism: Pacific coral reef shows historic increase in #climate resistance
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-pacific-coral-reef-historic-climate.html

Emergent increase in coral thermal tolerance reduces mass bleaching under #ClimateChange https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40601-6

"if #coral #ThermalTolerance continues to rise throughout the 21st century, significant reductions in #CoralBleaching impacts are possible... High-frequency #bleaching can be fully mitigated at some #reefs under low-to-middle #emissions scenarios (#ParisAgreement)"

In their #JEB100 Commentary, @sammiefontaine & @KevinDKohl discuss how #microbiomes can influence the #thermaltolerance of #ectotherms, although questions remain regarding the role that microbes play in the thermal ecology & evolution of their hosts

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/12/jeb245761/316644

#comparativephysiology #climatechange