Widespread range expansions shape latitudinal variation in insect thermal limits

Lesley T. Lancaster ()
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Lesley T. Lancaster: Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 6, 618-621

Abstract: Research now shows that broad thermal niches observed in high-latitude ectotherms apply only to species undergoing range expansion or invasion. Non-range-expanding species are therefore unlikely to tolerate climatic warming at high latitudes.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2945

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