Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction
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Significance: Tolerance to high temperatures will determine the survival of animal species under projected global warming. Surprisingly little research has been conducted to elucidate how this trait changes in organisms living at different elevations of similar latitudes, especially in the tropics. DNA barcodes demonstrate that insect species previously thought to have broad elevational distributions and phenotypically plastic thermal tolerances actually comprise cryptic species complexes. These cryptic species occupy discrete elevational ranges, and their thermal tolerances seem to be locally adapted to temperatures in their life zones. The combination of high species endemism and local adaptation to temperature regimes may increase the extinction risk of high-elevation insects in a warming world.
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The analyses are in keeping with predictions of Deutsch et al. that tropical insects should be especially vulnerable to climate warming.
“Fourth, our analyses are in keeping with predictions of Deutsch et al. (5) that tropical insects should be especially vulnerable to climate warming, adding to field and laboratory studies over the past several years that have consistently supported the predicted sensitivity (8, 48–53).”
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- Authors
- García-Robledo, C., Kuprewicz, E. K., Staines, C. L., Erwin, T. L., & Kress, W. J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012;
- Smithsonian Institution (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-01-04
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 680-685
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4725502
- OpenAlex
- W2232020431
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 23.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Smithsonian Digital Repository (Smithsonian Institution) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Geographic Society (W149-11)
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- Smithsonian Institution (Pell Grant, Global Earth Observatories Program, Small Grants, DNA Barcode Network Funds, Office of the Under Secretary for Science)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecological Modeling › Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Keywords
- critical thermal maximum, insect thermal tolerance, elevation gradient, cryptic diversity, DNA barcoding, species complex, extinction risk, global warming, upper thermal limit, altitudinal range
- MeSH terms
- Acclimatization, Adaptation, Physiological, Altitude, Animals, Costa Rica, Electron Transport Complex IV, Geography, Haplotypes, Hot Temperature, Humidity, Insecta, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Species Specificity, Tropical Climate, Extinction, Biological, Global Warming, Herbivory
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