Rapid climate change is likely to impose strong selection pressures on traits important for
fitness, and therefore, microevolution in response to climate‐mediated selection is …

Patterns of ecotypic variation constitute some of the few 'rules' known to modern biology.
Here, we examine several well‐known ecogeographical rules, especially those pertaining to …

Island faunas can be characterized by gigantism in small animals and dwarfism in large
animals, but the extent to which this so-called 'island rule'provides a general explanation for …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Ecogeographic rules denote spatial patterns in phenotype and environment that may reflect
local adaptation as well as a species' capacity to adapt to change. To identify genes …

Ecological responses to on-going climate change are numerous, diverse, and taxonomically
widespread. However, with one exception, the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and …

How fast can a mammal evolve from the size of a mouse to the size of an elephant?
Achieving such a large transformation calls for major biological reorganization. Thus, the …

Body size of animals often increases with increasing latitude. These latitudinal clines in body
size have interested biologists for over 150 years. However, the mechanisms that generate …

Sequences of the mitochondrial cyt b gene and nuclear IRBP, RAGI, I7, and vWF genes
were used to assess the evolutionary history of major lineages of Apodemus, in particular to …

Understanding climate change and its potential impact on species, populations and
communities is one of the most pressing questions of twenty-first-century conservation …