... biological disruption caused by increased temperature. Optimal temperature ( T opt ) The temperature at which a trait/biological rate is maximized across a range of temperatures in a thermal performance curve (TPC). Permissive temperature range The temperature range that permits completion...

...Nicole E. Moyen; George N. Somero; Mark W. Denny ABSTRACT Thermal performance curves are commonly used to investigate the effects of heat acclimation on thermal tolerance and physiological performance. However, recent work indicates that the metrics of these curves heavily depend on experimental...

..., and such colonization likely involved a fundamental change in physiology due to colder and more seasonal temperatures. However, which traits changed to allow colonization is unclear. We measured cold tolerance and characterized thermal performance curves in jumping for 12 species of treefrogs distributed from...

... and associated P -values are reported to examine the effect of fixed effects on the dependent variables. Each thermal performance curve (TPC) was modelled according to best-fit models obtained from GLMM analyses; this allowed the computation of a predicted value for the dependent variable, and an estimated...

... of Pocillopora acuta colonies in Mo′orea, French Polynesia. We used thermal performance curves to quantify the relationship between metabolic rates and temperature along the environmental gradient. We found that algal endosymbiont percent nitrogen content, endosymbiont densities and total chlorophyll a content...

... with photosynthesis and photochemical efficiency ( F v /F m ) of Breviolum psygmophilum photosymbionts were measured. Thermal performance curves (TPCs) of respiration revealed a pattern of countergradient variation with RI corals exhibiting higher respiration rates overall, and specifically at 6, 15, 18, 22 and 26°C...

... inhabiting contrasting environments ( Gaitán-Espitía et al., 2014 ; Stillman, 2002 ). In ectotherms, performance traits (e.g. growth, reproduction, physiology) vary with differences in T A , and this relationship can be described by a thermal performance curve (TPC; Angilletta, 2009 ; Huey and Berrigan...

.... As temperature increases, the rate of metabolism increases and then rapidly declines at higher temperatures – a response that can be described using a thermal performance curve (TPC). Although the shape of the TPC for aerobic metabolism is often attributed to the competing effects of thermodynamics, which can...

... and drafted sections of the manuscript. Funding This work was supported by the National Science Foundation [IOS-1256186 to W.W.D., OCE-1130095 to M.W.D.]. References Angilletta , M. J. Jr . ( 2006 ). Estimating and comparing thermal performance curves . J. Thermal Biol. 31 , 541...

.... , Cardona   A. , Brouhard   G. J. , Feldman   B. , Oates   A. C. ( 2008 ). Dynamics of zebrafish somitogenesis . Dev. Dyn.   237 , 545 - 553 . Schulte   P. M. , Healy   T. M. , Fangue   N. A. ( 2011 ). Thermal performance curves, phenotypic plasticity, and the time scales...

... temperature was important for the seasonal acclimation of performance traits in zebrafish. Thermal acclimation shifted the thermal performance curve of both traits. For maximum burst swimming, performance increased for each group near the acclimation temperature and reduced in environments that were far from...