“…This relationship was reported for other CAM plants (Larcher, 1980;Lösch and Kappen, 1983;Kappen and Lösch, 1984;Krause et al, 2016) as well as for another CAM bromeliad, for which Chaves et al (2015) showed that, under controlled conditions, leaf acidity decreases and thermal tolerance increases as temperature increases. This mechanism may have evolved due to the increase in tonoplast permeability and acid remobilization from vacuoles in response to higher temperatures (Friemert et al, 1988;Behzadipour et al, 1998;Savchenko et al, 2002;Lin et al, 2006), avoiding acid leakage during a warming event. On the other hand, in agreement with our observations for V. bituminosa, other studies have also reported daily variations of thermal tolerance in C 3 plants (e.g., Braun et al, 2002;Froux et al, 2004;Campos, 2011).…”