Does metabolism constrain bird and mammal ranges and predict shifts in response to climate change?

Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: Predicting responses of mammals to climate change

(2018) Duncan Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic signals in thermal traits remain stronger in the tropics if we can believe published physiological data. A reply to McKechnie et al., “Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures”

(2017) Christian Hof et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global patterns of thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change remain robust irrespective of varying data suitability criteria

(2017) Christian Hof et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comment on an analysis of endotherm thermal tolerances: systematic errors in data compilation undermine its credibility

(2017) Blair O. Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mechanistic variables can enhance predictive models of endotherm distributions: the American pika under current, past, and future climates

(2016) Paul D. Mathewson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Data quality problems undermine analyses of endotherm upper critical temperatures

(2016) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern hemisphere columbids

(2016) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Disentangling environmental drivers of metabolic flexibility in birds: the importance of temperature extremes versus temperature variability

(2015) Maria Stager et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The rise of novelty in ecosystems

(2015) Volker C. Radeloff et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics

(2015) Imran Khaliq et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inconsistent Range Shifts within Species Highlight Idiosyncratic Responses to Climate Warming

(2015) Daniel K. Gibson-Reinemer et al.   PLoS One

Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals

(2015) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cold truths: how winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change

(2014) Caroline M. Williams et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals

(2014) Thomas Ruf et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

(2014) I. Khaliq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Allometry of thermal variables in mammals: consequences of body size and phylogeny

(2013) Alexander Riek et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A global heterothermic continuum in mammals

(2013) Justin G. Boyles et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biophysical Modeling of the Temporal Niche: From First Principles to the Evolution of Activity Patterns

(2012) Ofir Levy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Feeling the heat: Australian landbirds and climate change

(2012) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   EMU

Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments

(2012) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Physiological Correlates of Geographic Range in Animals

(2011) Francisco Bozinovic et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Adaptive Thermoregulation in Endotherms May Alter Responses to Climate Change

(2011) J. G. Boyles et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Community and ecosystem responses to recent climate change

(2010) G. R. Walther   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution and Ecology of Species Range Limits

(2009) Jason P. Sexton et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms

(2009) W. P. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

(2009) M. W. Tingley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken

(2008) Nadejda V Mezentseva et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR

(2008) Brian Keith McNab   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Ecological factors affect the level and scaling of avian BMR

(2008) Brian Keith McNab   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

THE EVOLUTION OF HIGH SUMMIT METABOLISM AND COLD TOLERANCE IN BIRDS AND ITS IMPACT ON PRESENT-DAY DISTRIBUTIONS

(2008) David L. Swanson et al.   EVOLUTION

Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species

(2008) RA Robinson et al.   Endangered Species Research