Temperatures that sterilise males better predict global distributions of species than lethal temperatures
S. R. Parratt, B. Walsh, S. Metelmann, N. White, A. Manser, A. Bretman, A. A. Hoffmann, R. Snook, T. Price
This study shows that male sterility temperatures predict global distributions of 43 Drosophila species better than lethal temperatures, suggesting thermal limits to reproduction influence species distributions.
bioRxiv · Apr 16, 2020Ecology