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Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

David A. Vasseur,J. Delong,6 Authors,M. O’Connor

2014 · DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2612
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TLDR

This work couple fine-grained climate projections to thermal performance data from 38 ectothermic invertebrate species and contrast projections with those of a simple model to show that projections based on mean temperature change alone differ substantially from those incorporating changes to the variation, and to the mean and variation in concert.