Anthropogenically-driven climate warming is a hypothesized driver of animal body size
reductions. Less understood are effects of other human-caused disturbances on body size …

Alterations in body size can have profound impacts on an organism's life history and ecology
with long‐lasting effects that span multiple biological scales. Animal body size is influenced …

The digitization and open availability of life history traits measured directly from individuals
provide a key means of linking organismal function to environmental and ecological contexts …

Specimen‐based data have played a central role in documenting body‐size shifts as a
possible response to global warming over the last century. Identification of the drivers and …

Shifts in reproductive timing are among the most commonly documented responses of
organisms to global climate change. However, our knowledge of these responses is biased …

Sin Nombre orthohantavirus (SNV), a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that is
carried and transmitted by the North American deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus, can …

Identifying drivers of urban association in wildlife is a central challenge in conservation
biology. Traits facilitating access to novel resources and avoiding humans often correspond …

Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is
central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but …

Climate change and urbanisation are among the most salient human-induced changes
affecting Earth's biota. Extreme weather events can have high biological impacts and are …

The body mass of animals is directly or indirectly affected by multiple ecological factors.
However, the effects of ecological factors on the body mass are controversial, and a …