Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide has resulted in scientific projections of changes in global
temperatures, climate in general, and surface seawater chemistry. Although the …

Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

Biological impacts of climate warming are predicted to increase with latitude, paralleling
increases in warming. However, the magnitude of impacts depends not only on the degree …

Question: Associations of body size and of body temperature with fitness have complex
relationships for ectotherms, but three general patterns are known. Bigger is better: Larger …

There is a growing appreciation that chromosome inversions affect rates of adaptation,
speciation, and the evolution of sex chromosomes. Comparative genomic studies have …

Comparisons of recent with historical samples of chromosome inversion frequencies provide
opportunities to determine whether genetic change is tracking climate change in natural …

Abstract Effects of climate warming on wild populations of organisms are expected to be
greatest at higher latitudes, paralleling greater anticipated increases in temperature in these …

Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of
thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However …

Clines in chromosomal inversion polymorphisms—presumably driven by climatic gradients—
are common but there is surprisingly little evidence for selection acting on them. Here we …

Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation to spatiotemporal environmental variation is a
fundamental goal of evolutionary biology. This issue also has important implications for …