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Acclimation effects on critical and lethal thermal limits of workers of theArgentine ant, Linepithema humile

Jumbam, K.R. Jackson, S. Terblanche, J.S. McGeoch, M.A. Chown, S.L. (Elsevier Ltd., 2008)

For the Argentine ant Linepithema humile, bioclimatic models often predict narrower optimal temperature ranges than those suggested by behavioural and physiological studies. Although water balance characteristics of workers ...
The acute hypoxic ventilatory response: Testing the adaptive significance in human populations

Terblanche, J.S. Tolley, K.A. Fahlman, A. Myburgh, K.H. Jackson, S. (Elsevier Inc, 2005)

The acute Hypoxic Ventilatory Response (HVR) is an important component of human hypoxia tolerance, hence presumably physiological adaptation to high altitude. We measured the isocapnic HVR (L min¯¹ %¯¹) in two genetically ...
Allometric scaling of maximum metabolic rate: the influence of temperature

White, C.R. Terblanche, J.S. Kabat, A.P. Blackburn, T.M. Chown, S.L. Butler, P.J. (British Ecological Society, 2008)

1. Maximum aerobic metabolic rate, measured in terms of rate of oxygen consumption during exercise (Vo2max ), is well known to scale to body mass (M) with an exponent greater than the value of 0•75 predicted by models based ...
Critical thermal limits and their responses to acclimation in two sub-Antarctic spiders: Myro kerguelenensis and Prinerigone vagans

Jumbam, K.R. Terblanche, J.S. Deere, J.A. Somers, M.J. Chown, S.L. (Springer-Verlag, 2008)

Despite the relative richness of spider species across the Southern Ocean islands remarkably little information is available on their biology. Here, the critical thermal limits of an indigenous (Myro kerguelenensis, Desidae) ...
Critical thermal limits depend on methodological context

Terblanche, J.S. Deere, J.A. Clusella-Trullas, S. Janion, C. Chown, S.L. (The Royal Society, 2007-09-18)

A full-factorial study of the effects of rates of temperature change and start temperatures was undertaken for both upper and lower critical thermal limits (CTLs) using the tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes. Results show ...
Evolutionary responses of discontinuous gas exchange in insects

White, C.R. Blackburn, T.M. Terblanche, J.S. Marais, E. Gibernau, M. Chown, S.L. (The National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2007)

The discontinuous gas-exchange cycles (DGCs) observed in many quiescent insects have been a cause of debate for decades, but no consensus on their evolutionary origin or adaptive significance has been achieved. Nevertheless, ...
Factory flies are not equal to wild flies

Terblanche, J.S. Chown, S.L. (AAAS, 2007)
Local adaptation for body color in Drosophila americana: commentary on Wittkopp et al.

Clusella-Trullas, S. Terblanche, J.S. (Macmillan, 2011)
Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

Gaston, K.J. Chown, S.L. Calosi, P. Bernardo, J. Bilton, D.T. Clarke, A. Clusella-Trullas, S. Ghalambor, C.K. Konarzewski, M. Peck, L.S. Porter, W.P. Portner, H.O. Rezende, E.L. Schulte, P.M. Spicer, J.I. Stillman, J.H. Terblanche, J.S. van Kleunen, M. (2009-11)

Widespread recognition of the importance of biological studies at large spatial and temporal scales, particularly in the face of many of the most pressing issues facing humanity, has fueled the argument that there is a ...
Testing the thermal melanism hypothesis: a macrophysiological approach

Clusella-Trullas, S. Terblanche, J.S. Blackburn, T.M. Chown, S.L. (British Ecological Society, 2008)

1. The thermal melanism hypothesis (TMH) predicts that dark (low skin reflectance) individuals are at an advantage in cool climates as they heat faster and reach higher equilibrium temperatures than lighter (higher ...
Thermal tolerance in a south-east African population of the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes (Diptera, Glossinidae): Implications for forecasting climate change impacts

Terblanche, J.S. Clusella-Trullas, S. Deere, J.A. Chown, S.L. (Elsevier Ltd., 2008)

For tsetse (Glossina spp.), the vectors of human and animal trypanosomiases, the physiological mechanisms linking variation in population dynamics with changing weather conditions have not been well established. Here, we ...
Trait means and reaction norms: the consequences of climate change/invasion interactions at the organism level

Janion, C. Leinaas, H.P. Terblanche, J.S. Chown, S.L. (Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010)

How the impacts of climate change on biological invasions will play out at the mechanistic level is not well understood. Two major hypotheses have been proposed: invasive species have a suite of traits that enhance their ...