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How global extinctions impact regional biodiversity in mammals
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Phylogenetic diversity (PD) represents the evol- utionary history of a species assemblage and is a valuable measure of biodiversity because it cap- tures not on...
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Predicting ecosystem shifts requires new approaches that integrate the effects of climate change across entire systems
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Most studies that forecast the ecological conse- quences of climate change target a single species and a single life stage. Depending on climatic impacts on oth...
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall: body size and prey abundance influence predator −prey ratios
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Large carnivores are highly threatened, yet the processes underlying their population declines are still poorly understood and widely debated. We explored how b...
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Creating Wetlands: Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self-Design over 15 Years
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The succession of vegetation, soil development, water quality changes, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics are summarized in this article for a pair of 1-hectare f...
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Wetland Restoration, Wetlands, CO2, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Water quality, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Carbon cycle, Carbon sink, Carbon s...
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Biodiversity and the Feel-Good Factor: Understanding Associations between Self-Reported Human Well-being and Species Richness
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Over half of the world’s human population lives in cities, and for many, urban greenspaces are the only places where they encounter biodiversity. This is of p...
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Biodiversity, Human–wildlife interactions, Climate Change, Human civilization, Climate Impacts, Urban environments, Urban greenspace, Psychological well-being...
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Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty
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Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world’s dire challenges. Claims of conservation’s contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controve...
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Contemporary Evolution of Reproductive Isolation and Phenotypic Divergence in Sympatry along a Migratory Divide
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Understanding the influence of human-induced changes on the evolutionary trajectories of populations is a fundamental problem [1, 2]. The evolution of reproduct...
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Allopatric, Human–wildlife interactions, Habitat, Foraging range, Phenology, Climate Change, Simpatric, Migration, Evolutionary biology, Flight speeds, Birds,...
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Bird population trends are linearly affected by climate change along species thermal ranges
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Beyond the effects of temperature increase on local population trends and on species distribution shifts, how populations of a given species are affected by cli...
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Terrestrial birds, Thermal range, Predicted change, Extinction risk, Climate Adaptation, thermal habitat, Thermal maximum, Habitat degradation, Temperature, Nic...
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Integrating multiple lines of evidence into historical biogeography hypothesis testing: a Bison bison case study
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One of the grand goals of historical biogeography is to understand how and why species’ population sizes and distributions change over time. Multiple types of...
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Grassland Vegetation Changes and Nocturnal Global Warming
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Global minimum temperatures (TMIN) are increasing faster than maximum temperatures, but the ecological consequences of this are largely unexplored. Long-term da...
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Bergmann’s rule and climate change revisited: Disentangling environmental and genetic responses in a wild bird population
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Ecological responses to on-going climate change are numerous, diverse, and taxonomically widespread. However, with one exception, the relative roles of phenotyp...
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Climate Impacts, Global patterns, Plasticity, Climate Change, Quantitative genetics, Body mass, Bergmann’s rule, Heat, Phenotype, Body size, Mammals, Birds, T...
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The Evolution and Distribution of Species Body Size
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The distribution of species body size within taxonomic groups exhibits a heavy right tail extending over many orders of magnitude, where most species are much l...
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Thriving Arctic Bottom Dwellers Could Get Strangled by Warming
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Many biologists hypothesize that climate change could hurt the Arctic benthos and the large creatures that live off it by wiping out ice (and hence ice algae), ...
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Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world
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With the wide acceptance of forest-protection policies in the developing world comes a requirement for clear demonstrations of how deforestation may erode human...
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Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms
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Ecologists have long sought to understand how vegetation re- lates to climate (1, 2). Such knowledge underlies effective mitigation and adaptation to contempo- ...
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Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought
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uture drought is projected to occur under warmer temperature conditions as climate change progresses, referred to here as global- change-type drought, yet quant...
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Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus
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Considerable efforts are focused on the consequences of climate change for tropical rainforests. However, potentially the greatest threats to tropical biodivers...
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Fossil fuel, Biofuel, Desertification, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Carbon stocks, Land surface, Biodiversity, Carbon sequestration, Dessication, Fire freq...
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Allometry of thermal variables in mammals: consequences of body size and phylogeny
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A large number of analyses have examined how basal metabolic rate (BMR) is affected by body mass in mammals. By contrast, the critical ambient temperatures that...
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Thermal limits, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Predicted change, Temperature, Mammals, Phylogenetic analyses, Hazards, Basal metabolic rate (BMR), Body mass, ...
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Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity
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The study of elevational diversity gradients dates back to the foundation of biogeography. Although elevational patterns of plant and animal diversity have been...
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Gus Speth: Communicating environmental risks in an age of disinformation
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Once described as "the consummate environmental insider," Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says that green organizations, politic...
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