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Some mechanisms for how diel thermal variability affects organisms. (a) The diel narrowing hypothesis based on Gilchrist (1995). (b) Repeated diel cycles into stressful temperatures, conceptually showing the accumulation of physiological damage when temperature is beyond T threshold and recovery from this physiological damage when below this threshold.
