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  • Ecology and evolutionary biology
  • Physiological ecology
  • Climate change biology

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  • Climate change presents urgent challenges to understanding organismal physiology.
  • Physiological ecology offers a holistic view of climate change impacts on organisms and ecosystems.
  • Organismal evolutionary responses to climate change require integrated physiological understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how physiological ecology can address climate change impacts.
  • To propose a research framework integrating physiological, ecological, and evolutionary approaches.
  • To highlight the need for unifying concepts across diverse organisms.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewing theoretical and experimental efforts on thermal limits and multiple stressors.
  • Discussing field studies on aquatic ectotherms and global change drivers.
  • Developing the oxygen and capacity limited thermal tolerance (OCLTT) framework.

Main Results:

  • The OCLTT framework integrates multiple global change drivers.
  • OCLTT links ecosystem-level impacts to molecular and cellular responses.
  • A comprehensive research program with seven core objectives is proposed.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating physiological, ecological, and evolutionary approaches is vital for understanding climate change.
  • Unifying concepts are needed across Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya for coherent interpretation.
  • OCLTT may explain evolutionary limitations in thermal tolerance for metazoans.