Hi Ignasi,

Maybe you can find useful information in the papers of Stillman and Somero:

- Stillman, J.H & G.N. Somero. 2000. A Comparative Analysis of the Upper Thermal Tolerance Limits of Eastern Pacific Porcelain Crabs, Genus Petrolisthes: Influences of

Latitude, Vertical Zonation, Acclimation, and Phylogeny. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 73(2):200–208.

-Stillman, J.H & G.N. Somero. 2001. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNING AND MECHANISTIC BASES OF LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE THERMAL STABILITY IN PORCELAIN CRABS, GENUS PETROLISTHES. The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 767–776

-Stillman, J.H & G.N. Somero. 1996. ADAPTATION TO TEMPERATURE STRESS AND AERIAL EXPOSURE IN CONGENERIC SPECIES OF INTERTIDAL PORCELAIN CRABS (GENUS PETROLISTHES): CORRELATION OF PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MORPHOLOGY WITH VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION. The Journal of Experimental Biology 199, 1845–1855.

saludos

Very useful references Patricio, thanks!

  I suggest two paper but not for thermal stress:

Hughes, A.R., Inouye, B.D., Johnson, M.T., Underwood, N. & Vellend, M. (2008). Ecological consequences of genetic diversity. Ecology letters, 11, 609-623.

Hughes, A.R. & Stachowicz, J.J. (2004). Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 8998-9002.