In this blog post, Spencer Virgin, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, discusses his study “Behavioural thermoregulation and food availability drive fine-scale seasonal habitat partitioning in limpets”, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2023 Haldane Prize for Early Career Researchers About the Research Most research on the effect of climate change and extreme heat on organism distributions focuses only on … Continue reading Spencer Virgin: Hot limpets go south: Fine-scale thermal heterogeneity drives summertime limpet distributions