Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world

• Published in: Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 95; no. 3; pp. 802 - 821
• Main Authors: González‐Tokman, Daniel, Córdoba‐Aguilar, Alex, Dáttilo, Wesley, Lira‐Noriega, Andrés, Sánchez‐Guillén, Rosa A., Villalobos, Fabricio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2020
• Subjects: acclimation; Adaptation; Climate change; Climatic conditions; distribution; Ecological effects; ecological interactions; Ecology; Evolution; extreme temperatures; Genetics; Global warming; Heat; Heat shock proteins; Heat tolerance; High temperature; Hormones; Insects; Literature reviews; Mathematical analysis; Metabolic response; Phenotypic plasticity; Physiology; Quantitative genetics; Stress response; Thermoregulation; heat tolerance; ecological interactions; acclimation; physiology; adaptation; distribution; climate change; extreme temperatures

ABSTRACT Surviving changing climate conditions is particularly difficult for organisms such as insects that depend on environmental temperature to regulate their physiological functions. Insects are extremely threatened by global warming, since many do not have enough physiological tolerance even to...