Global climate change is frequently considered a major conservation threat. The Earth's
climate has already warmed by 0.5° C over the past century, and recent studies show that it …

Potential impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity are often assessed using
single-species bioclimatic 'envelope'models. Such models are a special case of species …

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that neoplastic clones are maintained
exclusively by a rare fraction of cells with stem cell properties,. Although the existence of …

This review examines the direct effects of climate change on insect herbivores. Temperature
is identified as the dominant abiotic factor directly affecting herbivorous insects. There is little …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

Increasing concern over the implications of climate change for biodiversity has led to the use
of species–climate envelope models to project species extinction risk under climate‐change …

Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …

Evidence is accumulating of shifts in species' distributions during recent climate warming.
However, most of this information comes predominantly from studies of a relatively small …

Habitat degradation and climate change are thought to be altering the distributions and
abundances of animals and plants throughout the world, but their combined impacts have …

Aim There is a debate as to whether biotic interactions exert a dominant role in governing
species distributions at macroecological scales. The prevailing idea is that climate is the key …