Globally, biodiversity is declining, and a major driver of this decline is climate change;
consequently, we need ways to evaluate the vulnerability of species to this change. We …

Density‐dependent habitat selection has been used to predict and explain patterns of
abundance of species between habitats. Thermal quality, a density‐independent component …

Thermal biology research compares field with laboratory data to elucidate the evolution of
temperature-sensitive traits in ectotherms. The hidden challenge of many of these studies is …

Predicting the effects of global climate change on species interactions has remained difficult
because there is a spatiotemporal mismatch between regional climate models and …

Habitat loss is the greatest contributor to the decline of species globally. To prioritize
protection of imperiled species, it is important to examine habitat use at multiple spatial …

Density-dependent (DD) and density-independent (DI) habitat selection is strongly linked to
a species' evolutionary history. Determining the relative importance of each is necessary …

Environmental temperature is a crucial resource for ectotherms, affecting their physiology,
behaviour and fitness. To maintain body temperatures within a suitable performance range …

Reptiles living in the grasslands of Western Canada cope with extremely variable
environmental temperatures. We studied body temperatures (T b) and operative …

Because body size affects nearly all facets of an organism's life history, ecologists have long
been interested in large-scale patterns of body-size variation, as well as why those large …

The greatest driver of the current biodiversity crisis is habitat loss. Roads are a major
contributor to habitat loss because they destroy and fragment habitat, in addition to causing …