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 …

Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

SL Chown, KJ Gaston - Biological Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems

M Daufresne, K Lengfellner… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the ecological impacts of climate change is a crucial challenge of the twenty-
first century. There is a clear lack of general rules regarding the impacts of global warming …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses

P Gienapp, C Teplitsky, JS Alho, JA Mills… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change

ME Visser - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The pivotal question in the debate on the ecological effects of climate change is whether
species will be able to adapt fast enough to keep up with their changing environment. If we …

Climate warming and ectotherm body size–from individual physiology to community ecology

J Ohlberger - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence suggests that the average body size of many organisms is declining
in response to climate warming. This phenomenon has been suggested to represent a …

A global assessment of Bergmann's rule in mammals and birds

J He, J Tu, J Yu, H Jiang - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bergmann's rule states that endotherms have a large body size in high latitudes and cold
climates. However, previous empirical studies have reported mixed evidence on the …

Adapting to climate change: a perspective from evolutionary physiology

SL Chown, AA Hoffmann, TN Kristensen… - Climate research, 2010 - int-res.com
Much attention has been given to forecasting the likely effects of ongoing climate change on
biodiversity. A large and often contentious literature has developed about how changes in …

Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model

X Guo, Y Gao, S Zhang, L Wu, P Chang, W Cai… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), episodic periods of abnormally high sea surface temperature,
severely affect marine ecosystems. Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) cover~ 22% of the …