Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Biology, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Glob Chang Biol. 2019 Jun;25(6):1893-1894. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14598. Epub 2019 Mar 24.
The capacity of organisms to acclimate will influence their ability to cope with ongoing global changes in thermal regimes. Here we highlight methodological issues associated with recent attempts to quantify variation in acclimation capacity among taxa and environments, and describe how these may introduce bias to conclusions. We then propose a measure of thermal acclimation capacity that more directly quantifies the process of acclimation. Future studies of variation in acclimation capacity should critically evaluate whether their chosen empirical metric accurately reflects the theoretical concept of acclimation.
生物体的适应能力将影响它们应对热环境持续全球变化的能力。在这里，我们强调了与最近尝试量化不同分类群和环境之间适应能力变化相关的方法问题，并描述了这些问题如何给结论带来偏差。然后，我们提出了一种衡量热适应能力的方法，该方法更直接地量化了适应过程。未来对适应能力变化的研究应批判性地评估其选择的经验指标是否准确反映了适应的理论概念。
