Evaporative heat dissipation is a key aspect of avian thermoregulation in hot environments.
We quantified variation in avian thermoregulatory performance at high air temperatures (T a) …

Quantifying species distributions using species distribution models (SDMs) has emerged as
a central method in modern biogeography. These empirical models link species occurrence …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question receiving renewed
interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of global warming on biodiversity. Is climate …

Understanding the extent to which phylogenetic constraints and adaptive evolutionary forces
help define the physiological sensitivity of species is critical for anticipating climate‐related …

The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) describes the pattern of increasing numbers of
species from the poles to the equator. Although recognized for over 200 years, the …

The use of traits is growing in ecology and biodiversity informatics, with initiatives to collate
trait data and integrate it into biodiversity databases. A need to develop better predictive …

Human‐induced climate change has intensified negative impacts on socioeconomic factors,
the environment, and biodiversity, including changes in rainfall patterns and an increase in …

The spread of exotic species to new areas can be magnified when favored by future climatic
conditions. Forecasting future ranges using species distribution models (SDMs) could be …