Elisabeth S. Vrba's resource-use hypothesis suggests that speciation in biomes subjected to
successive expansion-contraction-fragmentation during periods of climatic change …

The studies of climatic‐niche shifts over evolutionary time accompanied by key
morphological innovations have attracted the interest of many researchers recently. We …

Organismal fitness depends on performance of functional traits. In subterranean biology,
function has usually been inferred from either morphology or behavior, but rarely from both …

Secondary transitions to aquatic environments are common among vertebrates, and aquatic
lineages display several adaptations to this realm, some of which might make these …

How organisms respond to environmental change is a long‐standing question in
evolutionary biology. Species invading novel habitats provide an opportunity to examine …

Historically animals have played an important role in archaeological research as analogs of
or surrogates for humans. However, many bioarchaeological signatures used to examine …

The global adaptive convergence of subterranean mammals currently involves 3 orders:
rodents, insectivores and marsupials. These include 11 families, 50 genera, and several …

Abstract Rapid Morphological Changes (RMCs) in rodents has been frequently
documented. However, relation between RMCs and potential environmental drivers has …

Environmental variation over a species's range creates differing pressures to which
organisms must adjust in order to survive. Taxa can respond to these pressures at …

Environmental change is predicted to accelerate into the future and will exert strong
selection pressure on biota. Although many species may be fated to extinction, others may …