Replication data for: Heat tolerance decreases and cold tolerance increases with elevation for a species-rich insect family on a tropical volcano

We set out to determine how heat and cold tolerance, as well as thermal tolerance breadth (via a statistical proxy) changed with elevation for this beetle community, and to contextualize the heat tolerance values against environmental temperatures and against other insect heat tolerance data from one of the most popular thermal tolerance databases in the literature.

We found that heat tolerance and thermal breadth decreased with elevation while cold tolerances slightly increased, all of which were according to theory. These results (particularly heat tolerances), however, went against the patterns previously described for ectotherms using this popular thermal tolerance database. This is a replication dataset for the second chapter of my PhD thesis.