Temperature adaptation

Japanese: 温度適応 - おんどてきおう（英語表記）temperature adaptation

When a species, population, or individual organism has characteristics suited to the temperature factors of the environment, or when its form or function changes in a suitable direction, this is generally called temperature adaptation. The upper and lower limits of the environmental temperatures that an animal can tolerate vary from species to species and are closely related to the temperature of its habitat. Animals that can tolerate a relatively wide range of temperatures are called eurythermic, those that can tolerate a narrow range are called narrow-range thermophilic, those that tend toward the higher end are called thermophobic, and those that tend toward the lower end are called thermophobic. These characteristics are genetically inherited by species, and are, so to speak, phylogenetic adaptations.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

生物の種，個体群，個体が環境の温度要因に適した特徴をもっていること，または適する方向に形態や機能が変化することを，一般に温度適応という。動物が耐えられる環境温度の上限と下限は種によって異なり，生息環境の温度と密接に関係している。耐えられる温度の幅が比較的広い動物を広温性，狭いものを狭温性とよび，高温側にかたよっているものを好熱性，低温側にかたよっているものを嫌熱性とよぶ。これらの特性は遺伝的に種にそなわったいわば系統発生的な適応である。

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