The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

The biogeography of thermal risk for terrestrial ectotherms: Scaling of thermal tolerance with body size and latitude

(2020) Juan G. Rubalcaba et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Heat tolerance is more variable than cold tolerance across species of Iberian lizards after controlling for intraspecific variation

(2019) Salvador Herrando‐Pérez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

(2018) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   SCIENCE

GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms

(2018) Joanne M. Bennett et al.   Scientific Data

Bio-ORACLE v2.0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling

(2017) Jorge Assis et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Speciation gradients and the distribution of biodiversity

(2017) Dolph Schluter et al.   NATURE

Temperature extremes: geographic patterns, recent changes, and implications for organismal vulnerabilities

(2016) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies

(2015) Natalie Cooper et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenetic niche conservatism - common pitfalls and ways forward

(2015) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

New Grand Tree of Life Study Shows a Clock-Like Trend in the Emergence of New Species and Diversity

(2015) J. Caspermeyer   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

(2015) S. Blair Hedges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach

(2015) Søren Faurby et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms

(2015) Michael A. Ruggiero et al.   PLoS One

Climate sensitivity across marine domains of life: limits to evolutionary adaptation shape species interactions

(2014) Daniela Storch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reconciling Hierarchical Taxonomy with Molecular Phylogenies

(2014) Ben G. Holt et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Heat freezes niche evolution

(2013) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity in water and on land

(2012) Richard K. Grosberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Upper thermal limits in terrestrial ectotherms: how constrained are they?

(2012) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Life on a tropical planet: niche conservatism and the global diversity gradient

(2012) Tom S. Romdal et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

(2012) R. B. Huey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically

(2012) V. Kellermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine and terrestrial ecology: unifying concepts, revealing differences

(2012) Thomas J. Webb   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

(2012) Jennifer M. Sunday et al.   Nature Climate Change

Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling

(2011) Lennert Tyberghein et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Body Size Evolution in Mammals: Complexity in Tempo and Mode

(2010) Natalie Cooper et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Physiological climatic limits in Drosophila: patterns and implications

(2010) A. A. Hoffmann   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

What determines a species’ geographical range? Thermal biology and latitudinal range size relationships in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

(2009) Piero Calosi et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE

ECOLOGY: Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

(2008) J. J. Tewksbury et al.   SCIENCE