I was joined at the Museum of Life and Science last week by the New Hope Audubon for a table at the Youth Climate Summit. This event is attended by over 100 high school students from around the state, who come together to attend sessions relating to climate change and create their own climate action plans.
Biological effects of climate change are expected to vary geographically, with a strong signature of latitude. For ectothermic animals, there is systematic latitudinal variation in the relationship between climate and thermal performance curves, which describe the relationship between temperature and an organism’s fitness. Here, we ask whether these documented latitudinal patterns can be generalized to predict arthropod responses to warming across mid- and high temperate latitudes, for taxa whose thermal physiology has not been measured.
