Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

How ecological niche breadth evolves is central to adaptation and speciation and has been
a topic of perennial interest. Niche breadth evolution research has occurred within …

Human activities are causing global biotic redistribution, translocating species and providing
them with opportunities to establish populations beyond their native ranges. Species …

Climate warming may lower environmental resource levels, growth, and fitness of many
ectotherms. In a classic experiment, Brett and colleagues documented that growth rates of …

Populations of many species are genetically adapted to local historical climate conditions.
Yet most forecasts of species' distributions under climate change have ignored local …

Evolutionary adaptation to temperature and climate depends on both the extent to which
organisms experience spatial and temporal environmental variation (exposure) and how …

Geographic range size has long fascinated ecologists and evolutionary biologists, yet our
understanding of the factors that cause variation in range size among species and across …

Understanding plant thermal tolerance is fundamental to predicting impacts of extreme
temperature events that are increasing in frequency and intensity across the globe …

For more than 50 years ecological niches have been defined as combinations of
multidimensional environmental conditions permitting a species to survive and reproduce. A …

Species' geographic ranges vary enormously, and even closest relatives may differ in range
size by several orders of magnitude. With data from hundreds of species spanning 20 …