Doctoral student Lily McIntire’s first dissertation chapter has been published in Integrative and Comparative Biology: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf078 (open access)

This article explores the high-temperature tolerances of a variety of rocky intertidal invertebrates in central California, and asks how thermotolerance scales with mobility – do faster-moving animals like crabs or isopods get away with having lower tolerance to high temperatures by simply running away and hiding in a crevice when temperatures rise? The work illustrates that those highly mobile species do appear to have somewhat lower maximum temperatures that they can tolerate when compared to slower-moving snails, limpets, and completely immobile mussels and barnacles.