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. 2016 Aug 19;5:F1000 Faculty Rev-2040. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8766.1

Figure 1. A thermal performance curve for a hypothetical ectotherm.

Figure 1.

All species, whether free-living or parasitic, rise and fall with temperature. Performance rises slowly from the critical thermal minimum (CTmin) to a thermal optimum (To), declining sharply to the critical thermal maximum (CTmax).