A mosaic of climate vulnerability: local warming rates meet intraspecific divergence in heat tolerance
Wissam A. Jawad, Ana L. Salgado, Brian S. Cheng, Sarah Gignoux‐Wolfsohn, Cynthia G. Hays, Martha M. Muñoz, Matthew Sasaki, Morgan W. Kelly
The paper combines climate and thermal trait data to assess how intraspecific heat tolerance and local warming rates affect species vulnerability to climate change, finding that existing variation is often insufficient to offset projected warming.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2026 · PreprintEcology