Climatic conditions changing over time and space shape the evolution of organisms at
multiple levels, including temperate lizards in the family Lacertidae. Here we reconstruct a …

Species may exhibit similar thermal tolerances via either common ancestry or environmental
filtering and local adaptation, if the species inhabit similar environments. We ask whether …

Aim Temperature influences most components of animal ecology and life history–but what
kind of temperature? Physiologists usually examine the influence of body temperatures …

Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly
in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to …

Research addressing the effects of global warming on the distribution and persistence of
species generally assumes that population variation in thermal tolerance is spatially …

A major challenge in ecology and evolution is to disentangle the mechanisms driving broad-
scale variation in biological traits such as body size, colour, thermal physiology traits and …

For more than six decades, physiological ecologists have intensively studied diverse
aspects of lizard thermal biology. Nevertheless, a recent review notes that prior studies have …

Climate change is rapidly altering the way current species interact with their environment to
satisfy life-history demands. In areas anticipated to experience extreme warming, rising …

Tropical ectotherms are regarded as being especially threatened by global warming, but the
extent to which populations vary in key thermal physiological traits is little known. In general …

Microevolutionary studies often find that complex quantitative characters are highly
evolvable and adapted to the local environment, while macroevolutionary studies often …