Aim A major issue in ecology, biogeography, conservation biology and invasion biology is
the extent to which climate, and hence climate change, contributes to the positions of …

Aim Do species range shapes follow general patterns? If so, what mechanisms underlie
those patterns? We show for 11,582 species from a variety of taxa across the world that most …

In this paper we will outline several empirical approaches to developing and testing
hypotheses about the determinants of species borders. We highlight environmental change …

Range shifting is vital for species persistence, but there is little consensus on why individual
species vary so greatly in the rates at which their ranges have shifted in response to recent …

Recently, there has been increasing evidence of species' range shifts due to changes in
climate. Whereas most of these shifts relate ground truth biogeographic data to a general …

Predicting the extent and direction of species' range shifts is a major priority for scientists
and resource managers. Seminal studies have fostered the notion that biological systems …

The impacts of climate change have re‐energized interest in understanding the role of
climate in setting species geographic range edges. Despite the strong focus on species' …

Species' range limits are ubiquitous. This suggests that the evolution of the ecological niche
is constrained in general and at the edges of distributions in particular. While there may be …

According to broad‐scale application of biogeographical theory, widespread retractions of
species' rear edges should be seen in response to ongoing climate change. This prediction …

Current climate change may be a major threat to global biodiversity, but the extent of species
loss will depend on the details of how species respond to changing climates. For example, if …