1 INTRODUCTION As the biodiversity and climate crises aggravate (Díaz et al., 2019; Masson-Delmotte et al., 2021), linking environmental conditions to organismal physiology becomes crucial for predicting climate change impacts (Kearney & Porter, 2009), including in marine invertebrates. Consequently, there is growing interest in methods that assess organismal performance across different environments, both in situ and in the laboratory (e.g. Pereira et al., 2025).