Background Among the most widely predicted climate change-related impacts to biodiversity
are geographic range shifts, whereby species shift their spatial distribution to track their …

Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much
research to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the …

A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to
environmental change depends on the species' exposure and sensitivity to environmental …

Climate change has the potential to affect the ecology and evolution of every species on
Earth. Although the ecological consequences of climate change are increasingly well …

Upper thermal limits vary less than lower limits among related species of terrestrial
ectotherms. This pattern may reflect weak or uniform selection on upper limits, or …

Understanding and predicting how adaptation will contribute to species' resilience to climate
change will be paramount to successfully managing biodiversity for conservation …

Determining organismal responses to climate change is one of biology's greatest
challenges. Recent forecasts for future climates emphasize altered temperature variation …

Shifts in species' distribution and abundance in response to climate change have been well
documented, but the underpinning processes are still poorly understood. We present the …

Projected effects of climate change on animal distributions primarily focus on consequences
of temperature and largely ignore impacts of altered precipitation. While much evidence …

Climate change is transforming the structure of biological communities through the
geographic extension and contraction of species' ranges. Range edges are naturally …