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Analyses of global data sets demonstrate that in general the thermal tolerance range of ectotherms increases with latitude, especially in the northern hemisphere (Addo-Bediako, Chown & Gaston 2000; Ghalambor et?al. 2006; Sunday, Bates & Dulvy 2011). This pattern is most pronounced for terrestrial organisms, which show a 50% increase in thermal breadth due higher tolerance to cold temperatures. Marine organisms, however, appear to show little change in thermal breadth because of concomitant reductions in both the upper and lower tolerance limits (Sunday, Bates & Dulvy 2011). The close association between these critical/lethal limits and climatic variation in these respective habitats suggests that the increase in thermal specialization in terrestrial http://www.selleckchem.com/products/a-1155463.html ectotherms towards the tropics is an adaptive response to temperature per se, an assertion supported by further analyses of thermotolerance replicated at smaller spatial scales, for example, with respect to altitude (Brattstrom 1968). However, the increase in the strength of stabilizing selection associated with this increase in thermal specialization towards the tropics would appear to be modest. In a separate study conducted on a smaller data set of 38 insect species (data collated by Frazier, Huey & Berrigan 2006), other measures of thermal tolerance were found to more strongly decrease http://www.selleck.cn/products/PD-0332991.html towards the tropics. On the basis of this latter analysis, the ��warming tolerance�� (defined as the difference http://www.selleckchem.com/products/cb-5083.html between the CTmax and mean environmental temperature of the habitat, Thab) of tropical species is only one-third that of temperate species; the respective figure for the ��thermal safety margin�� (TSM; defined as the difference between the Topt and Thab) is just one-fifth (Deutsch et?al. 2008; Fig.?2). A reanalysis of the supplementary data for this article reveals that these various potential surrogate measures of thermal specialization are poorly correlated with thermal tolerance (CTmax???CTmin) (linear and nonlinear regression, whether hemispheres pooled or analysed separately: all P values >0��20). Although there is a trend for increasing thermal tolerance with latitude in this data set, it amounts to
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