Thermal adaptation is common and of interest in the age of rapid climate change. I discuss thermal performance curves in general, their uses and pitfalls, and their relationships with other prominent climatic patterns (such as e.g. the temperature-size rule). I then present data on an experimental evolution study of the dung fly Sepsis punctum, which was allowed to evolve in hot, cool and variable environments in the laboratory for multiple generations, to investigate whether and how thermal performance curves evolve.
When? | 19.03.2019 11:15 |
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Where? | PER 04 0.110 Rue Albert-Gockel 3 1700 Fribourg |
speaker | Professor Wolf Blanckenhorn, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich |
Contact | Department of Biology Prof. Thomas Flatt thomas.flatt@unifr.ch |