Winter is a key driver of individual performance, community composition, and ecological
interactions in terrestrial habitats. Although climate change research tends to focus on …

Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective
strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the …

Evidence of declines in insect populations has recently received considerable scientific and
societal attention. However, the lack of long‐term insect monitoring makes it difficult to …

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, including increasing
extinction rates. Current approaches to quantifying such impacts focus on measuring …

Climate changes have profound effects on the distribution of numerous plant and animal
species,,. However, whether and how different taxonomic groups are able to track climate …

Generation length (GL) is defined as the average age of parents of the current cohort,
reflecting the turnover rate of breeding individuals in a population. GL is a fundamental …

Human activities have strong impacts on ecosystem functioning through their effect on
abiotic factors and on biodiversity. There is also growing evidence that species functional …

One consequence of climate change is an increasing mismatch between timing of food
requirements and food availability. Such a mismatch is primarily expected in avian long …

Aim We assess whether and how datasets collected by the general public, so‐called citizen
science programmes, can improve biogeographical studies and contribute to large‐scale …

Recent rapid climatic changes are associated with dramatic changes in phenology of plants
and animals, with optimal timing of reproduction advancing considerably in the northern …