Key to the Tribes and Genera of Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Pakistan

Sultana, Riffat; Panhwar, Waheed Ali; Wagan, Muhammad Saeed

doi:10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.3.sc6

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“…Generally, it took approximately 1 h to reach the laboratory from the sampling site and to start the measurements. To identify grasshoppers, we followed Sultana and Wagan (2015), for ants we followed keys taken from AntWiki (http://www.antwiki.org), for spiders we followed Ashfaq et al (2019) and for beetles we followed Ali et al (2018) and Azadbakhsh and Rafi (2017).…”

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The role of thermal tolerance in determining elevational distributions of four arthropod taxa in mountain ranges of southern Asia

Khaliq,

Shahid,

Kamran

et al. 2023

Journal of Animal Ecology

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Understanding the role of thermal tolerances in determining species distributions is important for assessing species responses to climate change. Two hypotheses linking physiology with species distributions have been put forward—the climatic variability hypothesis and the climatic extreme hypothesis. The climatic variability hypothesis predicts the selection of individuals with broad thermal tolerance in more variable climatic conditions and the climatic extreme hypothesis predicts the selection of individuals with extreme thermal tolerance values under extreme climatic conditions. However, no study has tested the predictions of these hypotheses simultaneously for several taxonomic groups along elevational gradients. Here, we related experimentally measured critical thermal maxima, critical thermal minima and thermal tolerance breadths for 15,187 individuals belonging to 116 species of ants, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders from mountain ranges in central and northern Pakistan to the limits and breadths of their geographic and temperature range. Across all species and taxonomic groups, we found strong relationships between thermal traits and elevational distributions both in terms of geography and temperature. The relationships were robust when repeating the analyses for ants, grasshoppers, and spiders but not for beetles. These results indicate a strong role of physiology in determining elevational distributions of arthropods in Southern Asia. Overall, we found strong support for the climatic variability hypothesis and the climatic extreme hypothesis. A close association between species' distributional limits and their thermal tolerances suggest that in case of a failure to adapt or acclimate to novel climatic conditions, species may be under pressure to track their preferred climatic conditions, potentially facing serious consequences under current and future climate change.

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