The rapid rate of current global climate change is having strong effects on many species
and, at least in some cases, is driving evolution, particularly when changes in conditions …

Global change includes alterations in ocean temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and
pH, abiotic variables with strong and interacting influences on the physiology of all taxa …

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

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 …

The extent to which acclimation and genetic adaptation might buffer natural populations
against climate change is largely unknown. Most models predicting biological responses to …

Predicting the biodiversity impacts of global warming implies that we know where and with
what magnitude these impacts will be encountered. Amphibians are currently the most …

Species distributions are often constrained by climatic tolerances that are ultimately
determined by evolutionary history and/or adaptive capacity, but these factors have rarely …

Human-induced environmental change currently represents the single greatest threat to
global biodiversity. Species are typically adapted to the local environmental conditions in …

Climate change is imposing intensified and novel selection pressures on organisms by
altering abiotic and biotic environmental conditions on Earth, but studies demonstrating …

The time required to recover from cold-induced paralysis (chill-coma) is a common measure
of insect cold tolerance used to test central questions in thermal biology and predict the …