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Ivimey-Cook, Edward R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-0443, Glavan, Sarah, Bricout, Sophie, Piani, Claudio and Berg, Elena C.
(2026)
Long-Term Evolution Under Heatwave Conditions in the Seed Beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus.
Ecology and Evolution, 16 (4).
ISSN 2045-7758
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Abstract
Heatwaves, temporary periods of elevated temperatures, are increasing in both magnitude and frequency and have devastating effects on many taxa. However, to date, most studies investigating the impacts of heatwaves have focused on populations that have evolved under constant conditions prior to assaying or have only investigated the short-term outcomes. Here, using the seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, we investigated the long-term effects of evolution after 43 generations of fluctuating temperature with added heatwave exposure (a +2°C increase peaking at 42°C across 7 days, once every generation) on two important life history traits, development time and lifetime reproductive success (LRS). We find that populations that evolved under heatwave conditions eclosed at similar times but had lower LRS than those that evolved and were assayed under fluctuating conditions. When assayed at a novel constant and benign temperature of 29°C, beetles from both thermal regimes developed slower but had similar LRS. Together, this suggests that long-term heatwave exposure may incur only a very small cost to fitness, which disappears when individuals from those populations are exposed to benign control conditions. This study emphasizes the potency of long-term multigenerational exposure to heatwaves in order to understand how populations respond to climate change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data Availability Statement: Data and code are available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/ze-nodo.19680817. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | callosobruchus maculatus,climate change,fitness,fluctuating temperatures,heatwaves,thermal adaptation,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,ecology,nature and landscape conservation,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2026 14:41 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2026 05:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103978 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ece3.73562 |
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