Thermal Tolerance in Alpine Beetle Populations: Field Study Along an Elevational Gradient

Authors

  • Ineke Koopmanschap Department of Entomology, Gooi Institute of Biological Sciences, Hilversum, Netherlands Author
  • Iolanda Baldassarri Department of Evolutionary Biology, Casentino Laboratory for Ecology and Evolution, Poppi, Italy Author
  • Elvira Cronstedt Department of Ecology, Oland Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Borgholm, Sweden Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22667259

Keywords:

Thermal Tolerance in Alpine Beetle Populations; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Thermal Tolerance in Alpine Beetle Populations has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for thermal tolerance in alpine beetle populations, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2022-10-15