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One of the most important factors affecting the life history characteristics and biogeography of aquatic insects is temperature (Sweeney, 1984). Insects are poikilothermic (cold-blooded) animals whose metabolism, rate and magnitude of growth, development, and overall behavioral activities respond significantly to thermal change on a diel, seasonal, and annual basis (Ward and Stanford, 1982). Despite this sensitivity to temperature, most aquatic insect species can be found in aquatic habitats over a broad geographic area that includes a wide range of thermal regimes. Obviously, these aquatic insect species possess bioenergetic, developmental, and/or behavioral mechanisms that enable conspecific populations to survive and reproduce in very different environmental conditions.
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Sweeney, B.W., Jackson, J.K., Newbold, J.D., Funk, D.H. (1992). Climate Change and the Life Histories and Biogeography of Aquatic Insects in Eastern North America. In: Firth, P., Fisher, S.G. (eds) Global Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2814-1_7
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