A growing body of literature has documented myriad effects of human activities on animal
behaviour, yet the ultimate ecological consequences of these behavioural shifts remain …

Climate change is asymmetrically altering environmental conditions in space, from local to
global scales, creating novel heterogeneity. Here, we argue that this novel heterogeneity will …

Temperature imposes significant constraints on ectothermic animals, and these organisms
have evolved numerous adaptations to respond to these constraints. While the impacts of …

Highlights•Behaviour research has neglected climate change, a great threat to biodiversity.•
Behavioural variation probably explains idiosyncratic responses to climate.•To manage for …

Cryptic function loss occurs when the ecological function of an animal population is
significantly altered as a result of disturbance, even though the species is still present in the …

Background Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing
increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced …

Ecological analyses of climate warming explore how rising mean temperature will affect the
species composition of communities and their associated functioning. Experimentation …

Highlights•Nighttime temperatures are increasing at a faster rate than daytime
temperatures.•Climate change studies usually ignore the effects of nighttime …

With ongoing and rapid climate change, ecologists are being challenged to predict how
individual species will change in abundance and distribution, how biotic communities will …

Highlights•Study highlights ecological consequences of behavioural thermoregulation in
ectotherms.•This behaviour altered microhabitat utilization and population parameters in …