Belinda van Heerwaarden

Male fertility thermal limits predict vulnerability to climate warming

Belinda van Heerwaarden, Carla M Sgro

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Forecasting which species/ecosystems are most vulnerable to climate warming is essential to guide conservation strategies to minim..

Does Plasticity Trade Off With Basal Heat Tolerance?

Belinda van Heerwaarden, Vanessa Kellermann

Journal article  |  2020  |  Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Studies suggest that many species are already living close to their upper physiological thermal limits. Phenotypic plasticity is t..

Terrestrial insects and climate change: adaptive responses in key traits

Vanessa Kellermann, Belinda van Heerwaarden

Journal article  |  2019  |  PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Understanding and predicting how adaptation will contribute to species' resilience to climate change will be paramount to successf..

Quantifying the relative contributions of the X chromosome, autosomes, and mitochondrial genome to local adaptation

Clementine Lasne, Belinda Van Heerwaarden, Carla M Sgro, Tim Connallon

Journal article  |  2019  |  EVOLUTION

During local adaptation with gene flow, some regions of the genome are inherently more responsive to selection than others. Recent..

Environmental stress and evolutionary change

B Van Heerwaarden, VM Kellermann, AA Hoffmann

Book Chapter  |  2018

Periodically, populations will experience stressful conditions. Adaptation to these conditions requires adequate levels of heritab..

The quantitative genetic basis of clinal divergence in phenotypic plasticity

Belinda van Heerwaarden, Carla M Sgro

Journal article  |  2017  |  EVOLUTION

Phenotypic plasticity is thought to be an important mechanism for adapting to environmental heterogeneity. Nonetheless, the geneti..

How important is thermal history? Evidence for lasting effects of developmental temperature on upper thermal limits in Drosophila melanogaster

Vanessa Kellermann, Belinda van Heerwaarden, Carla M Sgro

Journal article  |  2017  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A common practice in thermal biology is to take individuals directly from the field and estimate a range of thermal traits. These ..

Limited scope for plasticity to increase upper thermal limits

Belinda van Heerwaarden, Vanessa Kellermann, Carla M Sgro

Journal article  |  2016  |  FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increases in average temperature and the frequency of extreme temperature events are likely to pose a major risk to species alread..

Increases in the evolutionary potential of upper thermal limits under warmer temperatures in two rainforest Drosophila species

Belinda van Heerwaarden, Michelle Malmberg, Carla M Sgro

Journal article  |  2016  |  EVOLUTION

Tropical and subtropical species represent the majority of biodiversity. These species are predicted to lack the capacity to evolv..

No patterns in thermal plasticity along a latitudinal gradient in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia

B van Heerwaarden, RFH Lee, J Overgaard, CM Sgro

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phenotypic plasticity may be an important initial mechanism to counter environmental change, yet we know relatively little about t..