Predicting which ecological factors constrain species distributions is a fundamental
ecological question and critical to forecasting geographic responses to global change …

Abstract The Latitudinal Biotic Interaction Hypothesis (LBIH) states that the intensity of biotic
interactions increases from high to low latitudes. This hypothesis, which may partly explain …

Early naturalists suggested that predation intensity increases toward the tropics, affecting
fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes by latitude, but empirical support is still …

The dilution effect predicts increasing biodiversity to reduce the risk of infection, but the
generality of this effect remains unresolved. Because biodiversity loss generates predictable …

Experimental studies are needed to empirically examine the effects of climate change on
terrestrial organisms and to serve as the basis for predictions and management practices. As …

The idea that species interactions are more ecologically and evolutionarily important toward
lower latitudes underpins seminal theories in ecology and evolution. Recent global studies …

Understanding how temperature determines the distribution of life is necessary to assess
species' sensitivities to contemporary climate change. Here, we test the importance of …

Adaptation to local conditions can increase species' geographic distributions and rates of
diversification, but which components of the environment commonly drive local adaptation …

Species' ranges are limited by both ecological and evolutionary constraints. While there is a
growing appreciation that ecological constraints include interactions among species, like …

The hypothesis that biotic interactions strengthen toward lower latitudes provides a
framework for linking community‐scale processes with the macroecological scales that …