Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola

MM Jacobson, EM Tucker, ME Mathiasson… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Concerns about the rapid and severe declines of many bumble bee (Bombus spp.) species
in Europe, and more recently North America, have spurred research into the extent and …

Spatially heterogeneous impact of climate change on small mammals of montane California

KC Rowe, KMC Rowe, MW Tingley… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Resurveys of historical collecting localities have revealed range shifts, primarily leading
edge expansions, which have been attributed to global warming. However, there have been …

The importance of biologically relevant microclimates in habitat suitability assessments

J Varner, MD Dearing - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Predicting habitat suitability under climate change is vital to conserving biodiversity.
However, current species distribution models rely on coarse scale climate data, whereas …

Temperature-dependent toxicity in mammals with implications for herbivores: a review

MD Dearing - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2013 - Springer
Diet selection in mammalian herbivores is thought to be primarily governed by intrinsic
properties of food, such as nutrient and plant secondary compound (PSC) contents, and less …

Small mammal responses to environmental change: integrating past and present dynamics

RJ Rowe, RC Terry - Journal of Mammalogy, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Forecasting the response of species and communities to environmental change is a priority
for multiple disciplines in the natural sciences. In looking toward the future, much can be …

Population variability complicates the accurate detection of climate change responses

C McCain, T Szewczyk… - Global Change Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rush to assess species' responses to anthropogenic climate change (CC) has
underestimated the importance of interannual population variability (PV). Researchers …

A trait‐based framework for discerning drivers of species co‐occurrence across heterogeneous landscapes

BA Kohli, RC Terry, RJ Rowe - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Null model analysis of species co‐occurrence patterns has long been used to gain insight
into community assembly but is often limited to identifying non‐random patterns without …

Dietary plasticity in pikas as a strategy for atypical resource landscapes

J Varner, MD Dearing - Journal of Mammalogy, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Mammalian habitat specialists are suffering notable population declines and localized
extinctions in response to climate change. Plastic behavioral responses, especially in …

Trophic cascades linking wolves (Canis lupus), coyotes (Canis latrans), and small mammals

BJ Miller, HJ Harlow, TS Harlow… - Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - cdnsciencepub.com
When large carnivores are extirpated from ecosystems that evolved with apex predators,
these systems can change at the herbivore and plant trophic levels. Such changes across …

Anthropogenic refugia ameliorate the severe climate-related decline of a montane mammal along its trailing edge

TL Morelli, AB Smith, CR Kastely… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We conducted detailed resurveys of a montane mammal, Urocitellus beldingi, to examine
the effects of climate change on persistence along the trailing edge of its range. Of 74 …