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标题：GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms
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作者：Joanne M. Bennett ; Piero Calosi ; Susana Clusella-Trullas 等
期刊名称：Scientific Data
电子版ISSN：2052-4463
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
DOI：10.1038/sdata.2018.22
语种：English
出版社：Nature Publishing Group
摘要：How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question receiving renewed interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of global warming on biodiversity. Is climate change forcing species to live near their critical thermal limits? Are these limits likely to change through natural selection? These and other important questions can be addressed with models relating geographical distributions of species with climate data, but inferences made with these models are highly contingent on non-climatic factors such as biotic interactions. Improved understanding of climate change effects on species will require extensive analysis of thermal physiological traits, but such data are both scarce and scattered. To overcome current limitations, we created the GlobTherm database. The database contains experimentally derived species’ thermal tolerance data currently comprising over 2,000 species of terrestrial, freshwater, intertidal and marine multicellular algae, plants, fungi, and animals. The GlobTherm database will be maintained and curated by iDiv with the aim to keep expanding it, and enable further investigations on the effects of climate on the distribution of life on Earth.