In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity
will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we seldom have sufficient …

Remote sensing has revolutionised many aspects of ecological research, enabling
spatiotemporal data to be collected in an efficient and highly automated manner. The last …

In the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the United Nations is pursuing efforts to limit
global warming to 1.5° C, whereas earlier aspirations focused on a 2° C limit. With current …

Climate is of fundamental importance to the ecology and evolution of all organisms.
However, studies of climate–organism interactions usually rely on climate variables …

Understanding how temperature determines the distribution of life is necessary to assess
species' sensitivities to contemporary climate change. Here, we test the importance of …

Many analyses of biological responses to climate rely on gridded climate data derived from
weather stations, which differ from the conditions experienced by organisms in at least two …

Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have played a pivotal role in predicting
how species might respond to climate change. To generate reliable and realistic predictions …

Increasingly available high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) facilitate the use of
fine-scale topographic variables as proxies for microclimatic effects not captured by the …

Biotic interactions play an important role in species distribution models, whose ignorance
may cause an overestimation of species' potential distributions. Species of the family …

Complex topography regulates near‐surface temperature above the treeline. It may thus
sustain microrefugia for alpine plants and relax the need of shifting upward when the climate …