Thermal Adaptation: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis by Michael J. Angilletta Jr.

By Michael J. Angilletta Jr.

Temperature profoundly affects either the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. those thermal results exert powerful selective pressures on behaviour, body structure and existence historical past whilst environmental temperatures differ over house and time. regardless of temperature's value, growth towards a quantitative conception of thermal model has lagged in the back of empirical descriptions of styles and procedures. during this publication, the writer attracts on idea from the extra basic self-discipline of evolutionary ecology to set up a framework for analyzing empirical experiences of thermal biology. This novel synthesis of theoretical and empirical paintings generates new insights concerning the means of thermal model and issues the way in which in the direction of a extra common concept. the specter of swift climatic switch on a world scale presents a stark reminder of the demanding situations that stay for thermal biologists and provides a feeling of urgency to this book's venture. Thermal variation will profit someone who seeks to appreciate the connection among environmental edition and phenotypic evolution. The booklet specializes in quantitative evolutionary types on the person, inhabitants and group degrees, and effectively integrates this thought with glossy empirical ways. through supplying a man-made assessment of evolutionary thermal biology, this obtainable textual content will attract either graduate scholars and tested researchers within the fields of comparative, ecological, and evolutionary body structure. it is going to additionally curiosity the wider viewers ecologists and evolutionary biologists who require a accomplished assessment of this subject, in addition to these researchers engaged on the utilized difficulties of neighborhood and international weather switch.