Reconciling ecogeographical rules: rainfall and temperature predict global colour variation in the largest bird radiation

Sex-Dependent Expression and Fitness Consequences of Sunlight-Derived Color Phenotypes

(2018) Juan A. Fargallo et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Toward Understanding the Repeated Occurrence of Associations between Melanin-Based Coloration and Multiple Phenotypes

(2018) Luis M. San-Jose et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Dark butterflies camouflaged from predation in dark tropical forest understories

(2018) WENDA CHENG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

(2018) Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Dark pigmentation limits thermal niche position in birds

(2018) Ismael Galván et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Melanin-based sexual dichromatism in the Western Palearctic avifauna implies darker males and lighter females

(2018) Juan J. Negro et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Testing the role of climate in speciation: New methods and applications to squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes)

(2018) Tereza Jezkova et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species

(2018) Kristina Riemer et al.   eLife

Impact of Yeast Pigmentation on Heat Capture and Latitudinal Distribution

(2018) Radames J.B. Cordero et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reflection of near-infrared light confers thermal protection in birds

(2018) Iliana Medina et al.   Nature Communications

Climatic factors shape plastic trade-offs in the polyphenic black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica (Diptera: Sepsidae)

(2017) Juan Pablo Busso et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Structural bias in aggregated species-level variables driven by repeated species co-occurrences: a pervasive problem in community and assemblage data

(2017) Bradford A. Hawkins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bright birds are cautious: seasonally conspicuous plumage prompts risk avoidance by male superb fairy-wrens

(2017) Alexandra McQueen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Coat colour adaptation of post-glacial horses to increasing forest vegetation

(2017) Edson Sandoval-Castellanos et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Conservation implications of anthropogenic impacts on visual communication and camouflage

(2016) Kaspar Delhey et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Ecogeographical gradients in plumage coloration among Australasian songbird clades

(2016) Nicholas R. Friedman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments

(2016) Tom R. Bishop et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine

(2016) Hernán E. Morales et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bergmann’s Rule, Adaptation, and Thermoregulation in Arctic Animals: Conflicting Perspectives from Physiology, Evolutionary Biology, and Physical Anthropology After World War II

(2016) Joel B. Hagen   JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY

Bergmann's rule: a biophysiological rule examined in birds

(2016) Volker Salewski et al.   OIKOS

Cool habitats support darker and bigger butterflies in Australian tropical forests

(2016) Shuang Xing et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration

(2015) James Dale et al.   NATURE

Social huddling and physiological thermoregulation are related to melanism in the nocturnal barn owl

(2015) Amélie N. Dreiss et al.   OECOLOGIA

Why Small Is Beautiful: Wing Colour Is Free from Thermoregulatory Constraint in the Small Lycaenid Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus

(2015) Rien De Keyser et al.   PLoS One

The colour of an avifauna: A quantitative analysis of the colour of Australian birds

(2015) Kaspar Delhey   Scientific Reports

Flower colour: Gloger's rule isn't just for the birds

(2015) Innes C. Cuthill   Nature Plants

Floral pigmentation patterns provide an example of Gloger's rule in plants

(2015) Matthew H. Koski et al.   Nature Plants

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

The validity of ecogeographical rules is context-dependent: testing for Bergmann's and Allen's rules by latitude and elevation in a widespread Andean duck

(2014) Natalia Gutiérrez-Pinto et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster reaches its maximum in Ethiopia and correlates most strongly with ultra-violet radiation in sub-Saharan Africa

(2014) Héloïse Bastide et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Melanin-based colour polymorphism responding to climate change

(2014) Alexandre Roulin   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bergmann meets Scholander: geographical variation in body size and insulation in the koala is related to climate

(2014) Natalie J. Briscoe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A Linear-Time Algorithm for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Trait Evolution Models

(2014) Lam si Tung Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

(2014) Dirk Zeuss et al.   Nature Communications

Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?

(2013) Celine Teplitsky et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Adaptation of Pelage Color and Pigment Variations in Israeli Subterranean Blind Mole Rats, Spalax Ehrenbergi

(2013) Natarajan Singaravelan et al.   PLoS One

Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration

(2013) L. S. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new method for dealing with residual spatial autocorrelation in species distribution models

(2012) Beth Crase et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

rangeMapper: a platform for the study of macroecology of life-history traits

(2012) Mihai Valcu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Interspecific variation in primate coat colour supports Gloger’s rule

(2011) Jason M. Kamilar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Thermal adaptation and ecological speciation

(2011) I. KELLER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Magic traits in speciation: ‘magic’ but not rare?

(2011) Maria R. Servedio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Geographical Variation in Bill Size across Bird Species Provides Evidence for Allen’s Rule

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

(2009) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century

(2009) P. Galeotti et al.   Biology Letters

Climate change: is the dark Soay sheep endangered?

(2009) S. K. Maloney et al.   Biology Letters

Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

(2009) Valérie A. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Colour phases of the eastern screech owl: a comparison of biomechanical variables of body contour feathers

(2009) Evan L. Pannkuk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Selection on a eumelanic ornament is stronger in the tropics than in temperate zones in the worldwide-distributed barn owl

(2008) A. ROULIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis

(2007) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Variation of coat color in house mice throughout Asia

(2007) Y. -C. Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY