Heat freezes niche evolution

MB Araújo, F Ferri‐Yáñez, F Bozinovic… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering phenology and distributions of many species and further changes
are projected. Can species physiologically adapt to climate warming? We analyse thermal …

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

JL Gardner, A Peters, MR Kearney, L Joseph… - Trends in ecology & …, 2011 - cell.com
A recently documented correlate of anthropogenic climate change involves reductions in
body size, the nature and scale of the pattern leading to suggestions of a third universal …

The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

JM Bennett, J Sunday, P Calosi, F Villalobos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how species' thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to
predicting species' responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived …

Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities

EA Riddell, KJ Iknayan, L Hargrove, S Tremor… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High exposure to warming from climate change is expected to threaten biodiversity by
pushing many species toward extinction. Such exposure is often assessed for all taxa at a …

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

RB Huey, MR Kearney… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to
environmental change depends on the species' exposure and sensitivity to environmental …

Hypervolume concepts in niche‐and trait‐based ecology

B Blonder - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume concept for the interpretation of niches as
geometric shapes has provided a foundation for research across different fields of ecology …

Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change

D Mitchell, EP Snelling, RS Hetem… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of predictive models (also known as mechanistic or causal models) of animal
responses to climate change depends on properly incorporating the principles of heat …

Hutchinson's duality: the once and future niche

RK Colwell, TF Rangel - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The duality between “niche” and “biotope” proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a
powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to …

Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

I Khaliq, C Hof, R Prinzinger… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The relationships among species' physiological capacities and the geographical variation of
ambient climate are of key importance to understanding the distribution of life on the Earth …

Cooling requirements fueled the collapse of a desert bird community from climate change

EA Riddell, KJ Iknayan, BO Wolf… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change threatens global biodiversity by increasing extinction risk, yet few studies
have uncovered a physiological basis of climate-driven species declines. Maintaining a …