Hot off the Press! New paper on what we know about aquatic insects and their response to temperature!

Our new paper (Climate change and the thermal physiology of aquatic insects: emerging patterns and unresolved questions in the latest issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science) is the first to review the state of our knowledge about how aquatic insects are responding to climate change. Co-authors Alisha Shah and Wilco Verberk find that climatic variation can be a strong factor in determining aquatic insect physiological traits but that responses vary considerably among taxa. Oxygen may be the key factor in determining thermal responses. Ultimately, however, there is not enough work on a broad array of taxa, making generalizations difficult at this point.