Evolutionary biologists tend to approach the study of the natural world within a framework of
adaptation, inspired perhaps by the power of natural selection to produce fitness …

Accurate and detailed reporting of methods is essential for scientific progress, yet it is widely
accepted that authors across all scientific fields tend to provide insufficient methods detail …

Temperatures are increasing due to global changes, putting biodiversity at risk. Organisms
are faced with a limited set of options to cope with this situation: adapt, disperse or die. We …

A key issue in predicting how ecosystems will respond to environmental change is
understanding why populations and communities are able to live and reproduce in some …

Thermal performance curves (TPCs) are used to predict changes in species interactions,
and hence, range shifts, disease dynamics and community composition, under forecasted …

Although studies quantifying evolutionary change in response to the selective pressures that
organisms face in the wild have demonstrated that organisms can evolve rapidly, we lack a …

Body size is a key functional trait that is predicted to decline under warming. Warming is
known to cause size declines via phenotypic plasticity, but evolutionary responses of body …

Although there is considerable optimism surrounding adaptive evolutionary responses to
global change, relatively little attention has been paid to maladaptation in this context. In this …

According to the metabolic theory of ecology, metabolic rate, an important indicator of the
pace of life, varies with body mass and temperature as a result of internal physical …

Evolution in nature occurs in the proverbial tangled bank. The species interactions
characterizing this tangled bank can be strongly affected by global change and can also …