The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

被引：235

作者：

Bennett, Joanne M. ^{[1
,2
,3
,4
]}

Sunday, Jennifer ^{[5
]}

Calosi, Piero ^{[6
]}

Villalobos, Fabricio ^{[7
,8
]}

Martinez, Brezo ^{[9
]}

Molina-Venegas, Rafael ^{[10
]}

Araujo, Miguel B. ^{[11
,12
]}

Algar, Adam C. ^{[13
]}

Clusella-Trullas, Susana ^{[14
]}

Hawkins, Bradford A. ^{[15
]}

Keith, Sally A. ^{[16
,17
]}

Kuehn, Ingolf ^{[1
,4
,18
]}

Rahbek, Carsten ^{[17
,18
,19
,20
]}

Rodriguez, Laura ^{[9
]}

Singer, Alexander ^{[1
,2
]}

Morales-Castilla, Ignacio ^{[10
]}

Olalla-Tarraga, Miguel Angel ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] German Ctr Integrat Biodivers Res iDiv, Leipzig, Germany

[2] Univ Leipzig, Ritterstr 26, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany

[3] Univ Canberra, Fac Sci & Technol, Inst Appl Ecol, Ctr Appl Water Sci, Canberra, ACT, Australia

[4] Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Inst Biol, Halle, Saale, Germany

[5] McGill Univ, Dept Biol, Montreal, PQ, Canada

[6] Univ Quebec Rimouski, Dept Biol Chim & Geog, Rimouski, PQ, Canada

[7] Univ Fed Goias, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Ecol, Goiania, Go, Brazil

[8] Inst Ecol AC, Red Biol Evolut, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

[9] Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Biol & Geol Phys & Inorgan Chem, Mostoles, Spain

[10] Univ Alcala, Dept Life Sci, GloCEE Global Change Ecol & Evolut Grp, Alcala De Henares, Spain

[11] CSIC, Natl Museum Nat Sci, Dept Biogeog & Global Change, Madrid, Spain

[12] Univ Evora, Inst Med, Evora, Portugal

[13] Univ Nottingham, Sch Geog, Nottingham, England

[14] Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Bot & Zool, Ctr Invas Biol, Stellenbosch, South Africa

[15] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Irvine, CA 92717 USA

[16] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster Environm Ctr, Lancaster, England

[17] Univ Copenhagen, GLOBE Inst, Ctr Macroecol Evolut & Climate, Univ Pk 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark

[18] UFZ Helmholtz Ctr Environm Res, Dept Community Ecol, Halle, Germany

[19] Imperial Coll London, Dept Life Sci, Ascot SL5 7PY, Berks, England

[20] Univ Southern Denmark, Danish Inst Adv Study, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

来源：

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 2021年 / 12卷 / 01期

关键词：

NICHE CONSERVATISM; REVISED CLASSIFICATION; GLOBAL DIVERSITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PATTERNS; ECOLOGY; SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; TOLERANCE; MARINE;

D O I：

10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Understanding how species' thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to predicting species' responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived estimates of thermal tolerance limits for over 2000 terrestrial and aquatic species, we show that most of the variation in thermal tolerance can be attributed to a combination of adaptation to current climatic extremes, and the existence of evolutionary 'attractors' that reflect either boundaries or optima in thermal tolerance limits. Our results also reveal deep-time climate legacies in ectotherms, whereby orders that originated in cold paleoclimates have presently lower cold tolerance limits than those with warm thermal ancestry. Conversely, heat tolerance appears unrelated to climate ancestry. Cold tolerance has evolved more quickly than heat tolerance in endotherms and ectotherms. If the past tempo of evolution for upper thermal limits continues, adaptive responses in thermal limits will have limited potential to rescue the large majority of species given the unprecedented rate of contemporary climate change. Historical climate adaptation can give insight into the potential for adaptation to contemporary changing climates. Here Bennett et al. investigate thermal tolerance evolution across much of the tree of life and find different effects of ancestral climate on the subsequent evolution of ectotherms vs. endotherms.

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