Climate Change and Developmental Physiology

Background
Climate change involves significant variation of average weather conditions, including heat waves, large storms, rising sea levels, and intense drought. Global climate change already has had remarkable effects on the environment, posing a fundamental threat to living organisms and exposing them to environmental conditions that are often outside their limits of tolerance. To cope with the increasingly extreme weather conditions, organisms undergo physiological, morphological and behavioral changes that influence their survivorship, reproduction and development. Yet, the focus is often on mature organisms, and how climate change affects developing animals in particular has not been extensively studied.

Goals
The Research Topic of Climate Change and Developmental Physiology will shed light on the developmental physiological changes triggered by climate change in a wide range of animal species, potentially including humans. The scope of this collection covers, but is not limited to, the following themes and questions:
- developmental consequences of short- and long-term climate change
- adaptation mechanisms in a changing environment during development
- rates of metabolism, growth and development during development in increasing extreme environments

Information for Authors
Manuscripts submitted to this Research Topic should be in line with the scope of the Developmental Physiology section. Several article types will be considered, please find more information here.

Even though abstract submission is not mandatory, we encourage all interested researchers to submit an abstract before submitting their manuscript. Abstracts do not have to coincide with the final abstract of the manuscripts.

Keywords: climate change, developmental physiology, acclimation, acclimatization, adaptation

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.