A recently documented correlate of anthropogenic climate change involves reductions in
body size, the nature and scale of the pattern leading to suggestions of a third universal …

Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These
thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history …

Biotic interactions are believed to play a role in the origin and maintenance of species
diversity, and multiple hypotheses link the latitudinal diversity gradient to a presumed …

The majority of ectotherms grow slower but mature at a larger body size in colder
environments. This phenomenon has puzzled biologists because classic theories of life …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1041–1054 Abstract Two major approaches address the need to
predict species distributions in response to environmental changes. Correlative models …

Temperature profoundly influences physiological responses in animals, primarily due to the
effects on biochemical reaction rates. Since physiological responses are often exemplified …

1. Thermoregulation buffers environmental variation, which enables a species to persist
during climate change but ultimately hinders adaptation of thermal tolerance by weakening …

The development of a more synthetic approach to understanding spatial patterns in
biogeography, particularly of the way in which these patterns interact, constitutes a major …

The science behind ecology has been contested for years, partially because of the misuse
and misrepresentation of concepts within ecology. This paper discusses the use of …

Aims To test the magnitude and direction of the effects of large‐scale environmental factors
(latitude and habitat type: lotic or lentic) on the intraspecific variations in multiple life‐history …