There are multiple observations around the globe showing that in many avian species, both
the timing of migration and breeding have advanced, due to warmer springs. Here, we …

Rapid climate change is likely to impose strong selection pressures on traits important for
fitness, and therefore, microevolution in response to climate‐mediated selection is …

Many studies have recorded phenotypic changes in natural populations and attributed them
to climate change. However, controversy and uncertainty has arisen around three levels of …

Efforts to understand the links between evolutionary and ecological dynamics hinge on our
ability to measure and understand how genes influence phenotypes, fitness and population …

Although many of the statistical techniques used in comparative biology were originally
developed in quantitative genetics, subsequent development of comparative techniques has …

The pivotal question in the debate on the ecological effects of climate change is whether
species will be able to adapt fast enough to keep up with their changing environment. If we …

Evolutionary biology has struggled to explain the coexistence of two basic observations:
Genetic variation is found in almost all traits in the presence of strong natural and sexual …

Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) is a method for obtaining point estimates of a
random effect in a mixed effect model. Over the past decade it has been used extensively in …

Related individuals often have similar phenotypes, but this similarity may be due to the
effects of shared environments as much as to the effects of shared genes. We consider here …

Global warming is impacting biodiversity by altering the distribution, abundance, and
phenology of a wide range of animal and plant species. One of the best documented …