Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change

JA Sheridan, D Bickford - Nature climate change, 2011 - nature.com
Determining how climate change will affect global ecology and ecosystem services is one of
the next important frontiers in environmental science. Many species already exhibit smaller …

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

JL Gardner, A Peters, MR Kearney, L Joseph… - Trends in ecology & …, 2011 - cell.com
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 …

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

AA Hoffmann, CM Sgrò - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Evolutionary adaptation can be rapid and potentially help species counter stressful
conditions or realize ecological opportunities arising from climate change. The challenges …

Do species' traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

AL Angert, LG Crozier, LJ Rissler, SE Gilman… - Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 677–689 Abstract Although some organisms have moved to
higher elevations and latitudes in response to recent climate change, there is little …

Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes

MW Holmes, TT Hammond, GOU Wogan… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These
repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in …

40 years of evolution: Darwin's finches on Daphne Major Island

PR Grant, BR Grant - 40 Years of Evolution, 2014 - degruyter.com
Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark
studies of the Galápagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In How and Why …

Impacts of climate change on the amphibians and reptiles of Southeast Asia

D Bickford, SD Howard, DJJ Ng… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
Amphibians and reptiles will be adversely affected by projected rapid changes in climate in
the next decades. Here, we review the known and potential impacts of climate change on …

Temperatures in excess of critical thresholds threaten nestling growth and survival in a rapidly-warming arid savanna: a study of common fiscals

SJ Cunningham, RO Martin, CL Hojem, PAR Hockey - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Frequency, duration, and intensity of hot-weather events are all predicted to increase with
climate warming. Despite this, mechanisms by which temperature increases affect individual …

Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?

C Teplitsky, V Millien - Evolutionary applications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to induce many ecological and evolutionary changes. Among
these is the hypothesis that climate warming will cause a reduction in body size. This …

Novel communities from climate change

M Lurgi, BC López, JM Montoya - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is generating novel communities composed of new combinations of
species. These result from different degrees of species adaptations to changing biotic and …