Museum specimens of terrestrial vertebrates are sensitive indicators of environmental change in the Anthropocene

CJ Schmitt, JA Cook, KR Zamudio… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific
infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving …

Conservation status of American pikas (Ochotona princeps)

AT Smith - Journal of Mammalogy, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is commonly perceived as a species that is
at high risk of extinction due to climate change. The purpose of this review is two-fold: to …

Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes: Integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics

MF Oldfather, MM Kling, SN Sheth… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of climate change have re‐energized interest in understanding the role of
climate in setting species geographic range edges. Despite the strong focus on species' …

Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate‐sensitive mammal

PD Billman, EA Beever, DB McWethy… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species are frequently responding to contemporary climate change by shifting to higher
elevations and poleward to track suitable climate space. However, depending on local …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: Implications for conservation status and actions

EA Beever, JL Wilkening, PD Billman, LL Thurman… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary climate change is modifying the distribution, morphology, phenology,
physiology, evolution, and interspecific interactions of species. Effects of climate change are …

Getting chased up the mountain: high elevation may limit performance and fitness characters in a montane insect

EP Dahlhoff, VC Dahlhoff, CA Grainger… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to shift species distributions as populations grow in favourable
habitats and decline in harsh ones. Montane animals escape warming conditions at low …

Genome-wide analysis reveals associations between climate and regional patterns of adaptive divergence and dispersal in American pikas

DA Schmidt, MD Waterhouse, BMF Sjodin… - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the role of adaptation in species' responses to climate change is important
for evaluating the evolutionary potential of populations and informing conservation efforts …

Adaptive population divergence and directional gene flow across steep elevational gradients in a climate‐sensitive mammal

MD Waterhouse, LP Erb, EA Beever… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ecological effects of climate change have been shown in most major taxonomic groups;
however, the evolutionary consequences are less well‐documented. Adaptation to new …

A diet rich in C3 plants reveals the sensitivity of an alpine mammal to climate change

S Bhattacharyya, DA Dawson, H Hipperson… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–herbivore interactions provide critical insights into the mechanisms that govern the
spatiotemporal distributions of organisms. These interactions are crucial to understanding …

Toward climate change refugia conservation at an ecoregion scale

C Balantic, A Adams, S Gross, R Mazur… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change uncertainty poses serious challenges to conservation efforts. One emerging
conservation strategy is to identify and conserve climate change refugia: areas relatively …