Joel Kingsolver

About

Joel Kingsolver is associated with the UNC Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His contact information includes an office at 123 W. Franklin Street, Suite #330B, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, with a phone number of 919-966-9922 and an email address at ie@unc.edu. The biography provided does not include specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Biology
• Ecology
• Zoology
• Physics
• Environmental resource management
• Geography
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

  Ecological Monographs · 2022 · 536 citations

  Abstract Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates the harmful effects of other human‐mediated threats. The associated consequences are potentially severe, particularly in terms of threats to species preservation, as well as in the preservation of an array of ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. Among the most affected groups of animals are insect…

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• Ontogenetic variation in thermal sensitivity shapes insect ecological responses to climate change

  Current Opinion in Insect Science · 2020 · 114 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Evolution of Thermal Sensitivity in Changing and Variable Climates

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2021 · 83 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Evolutionary adaptation to temperature and climate depends on both the extent to which organisms experience spatial and temporal environmental variation (exposure) and how responsive they are to the environmental variation (sensitivity). Theoretical models and experiments suggesting substantial potential for thermal adaptation have largely omitted realistic environmental variation. Environmental variation can drive fluctuations in selection that slow adaptive evolution. We review how carefully f…

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• Differing thermal sensitivities in a host–parasitoid interaction: High, fluctuating developmental temperatures produce dead wasps and giant caterpillars

  Functional Ecology · 2021 · 49 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Insect parasitoids, and the arthropod hosts they consume during development, are important ecological players in almost all environments across the globe. As ectothermic organisms, both parasitoid and host are strongly impacted by environmental temperature. If thermal tolerances differ between host insect and parasitoid, then the outcome of their interaction will be determined by the ambient temperature. As mean temperatures continue to rise and extreme temperatures become more frequent…

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• Responses of<i>Manduca sexta</i>larvae to heat waves

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2021 · 22 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Climate change is increasing the frequency of heat waves and other extreme weather events experienced by organisms. How does the number and developmental timing of heat waves affect survival, growth and development of insects? Do heat waves early in development alter performance later in development? We addressed these questions using experimental heat waves with larvae of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. The experiments used diurnally fluctuating temperature treatments differing in the numb…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Deconstructing the temperature-size rule: an integration of mechanistic and selection analyses

  NSF · $507k · 2011–2017

• Thermoregulation, Predation, and Wing Pigmentation Patterns in Pieris Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

  NSF · $118k · 1984–1986

• Experimental Analyses of Body Morphology, Flight and Survival in Pierine Butterflies

  NSF · $280k · 1995–2000

Frequent coauthors

• Nancy Heckman

  39 shared

• John R. Stinchcombe

  University of Toronto

  38 shared

• Mark Kirkpatrick

  The University of Texas at Austin

  37 shared

• Johanna Schmitt

  University of California, Davis

  37 shared

• Lauren B. Buckley

  University of Washington

  36 shared

• Sarah E. Diamond

  Case Western Reserve University

  26 shared

• Heidi J. MacLean

  Aarhus University

  19 shared

• Diane C. Wiernasz

  University of Houston

  15 shared

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