Climate change poses profound, direct, and well‐documented threats to biodiversity. A
significant fraction of Earth's species is at risk of extinction due to changing precipitation and
temperature regimes, rising and acidifying oceans, and other factors. There is also growing
awareness of the diversity and magnitude of responses, both proactive and reactive, that
people will undertake as lives and livelihoods are affected by climate change. Yet to date
few studies have examined the relationship between these two powerful forces. The natural …