Thermal physiology is commonly used in mechanistic models to predict species distribution and project distribution change. Such thermal constraints for ants are often measured under laboratory conditions as critical thermal limits (CT_max and CT_min), but have also been observed in the field as foraging thermal limits (FT_min and FT_max). Here we compared distribution projections based on ant physiological and behavioural thermal limits with their realized distributions to assess the validity of using ecophysiological models to predict species ranges over large scales.

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在预测全球蚂蚁分布方面，活动利基表现优于热生理极限

机械模型中通常使用热生理学来预测物种分布和项目分布变化。蚂蚁的这种热约束通常在实验室条件下作为临界热极限（CT _max和CT _min）进行测量，但在野外也已观察到觅食热极限（FT _min和FT _max）。在这里，我们比较了基于蚂蚁生理和行为热极限的分布预测及其实现的分布，以评估使用生态生理模型预测大范围物种分布的有效性。