Thermal tolerance patterns of a carabid beetle sampled along invasion and altitudinal gradients at a sub-Antarctic island

• Published in: Journal of Thermal Biology
• Main Authors: Engell Dahl, Julie, Bertrand, Mathilde, Pierre, Aurélien, Curtit, Bérengère, Pillard, Clémence, Tasiemski, Aurélie, Convey, Peter, Renault, D
• Other Authors: Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution Rennes (ECOBIO), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut Ecologie et Environnement - CNRS Ecologie et Environnement (INEE-CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 (CIIL), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire CHU Lille (CHRU Lille)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Institut universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), This research was supported by InEE-CNRS (Zone Atelier CNRS Antarctique et Subantarctique), and the French Polar Institute Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV, program 136 ‘SUBANTECO’). Peter Convey is supported by NERC core funding to the British Antarctic Survey's ‘Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation’ Team.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: species invasion; adult; pressure gradient; altitude acclimatization; animal cell; Antarctica; Article; controlled study; cold stress; beetle; environmental exposure; greenhouse effect; habitat selection; heat tolerance; Merizodus soledadinus; prediction; nonhuman; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Antarctic; Buckley; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-02397725; https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-02397725/document; https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-02397725/file/Engell%20Dahl%20et%20al-2019-Thermal%20tolerance%20patterns%20of%20a%20carabid%20beetle%20sampled%20along%20invasion%20and.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102447

International audience The ectothermic nature of insects implies that all aspects of their life are shaped by temperature and its variation. As a result, thermal tolerance (the degree of tolerance of an individual to thermal extremes), in parallel with the plasticity of this trait (the capacity to adjust thermal tolerance through acclimatization), are important predictors of the geographic distribution and sensitivity to global warming of organisms (Anderse n et al., 2015; Buckley and Huey, 2016; García-Robledo et al., 2016; Hoffmann et al., 2013). In addition, considering variation in temperature tolerance between populations within sp ecies can be used as an indicator of potential abundance and distribution in response to climate change (Sorte et al., 2011). Indeed, thermal tolerance, and the underlying physiological mechanisms permitting adaptation to temperature changes and extremes, represent important traits un der selection (Angilletta et al., 2002), particularly for range-shifting and invasive species.