Does Plasticity Trade Off With Basal Heat Tolerance?

The tolerance–plasticity trade-off hypothesis proposes that species with high thermal tolerance are less likely to respond via phenotypic plasticity, increasing their extinction risk. Some empirical studies have found support for the tolerance–plasticity trade-off hypothesis, but most of these studies suffer from numerous methodological and statistical caveats – several of which are currently not considered. Many experiments look at phenotypic...