Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

The range of resources that a species uses (ie its niche breadth) might determine the
geographical area it can occupy, but consensus on whether a niche breadth–range size …

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

Ectotherms are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate warming. Descriptions of
habitat temperatures and predicted changes in climate usually consider mean monthly …

Thermal performance curves (TPCs) describe the effects of temperature on biological rate
processes. Here, we use examples from our work on common killifish (Fundulus …

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

Many organisms have complex life cycles with distinct life stages that experience different
environmental conditions. How does the complexity of life cycles affect the ecological and …

Recent mass mortalities of bats, birds and even humans highlight the substantial threats that
rising global temperatures pose for endotherms. Although less dramatic, sublethal fitness …

Temperature profoundly affects species' geographic ranges, but the extent to which it limits
contemporary range edges has been difficult to assess from laboratory experiments of …

The most common approach to predicting how species ranges and ecological functions will
shift with climate change is to construct correlative species distribution models (SDMs) …