Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits

Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities

(2021) E. A. Riddell et al.   SCIENCE

Body size trends in response to climate and urbanization in the widespread North American deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus

(2020) Robert Guralnick et al.   Scientific Reports

Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization

(2020) Tibor Magura et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

phyr: An r package for phylogenetic species‐distribution modelling in ecological communities

(2020) Daijiang Li et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Butterfly species’ responses to urbanization: differing effects of human population density and built-up area

(2020) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Life history and habitat do not mediate temporal changes in body size due to climate warming in rodents

(2020) Aluwani Nengovhela et al.   PeerJ

Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration

(2020) Daijiang Li et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shared extremes by ectotherms and endotherms: Body elongation in mustelids is associated with small size and reduced limbs

(2019) Chris J. Law et al.   EVOLUTION

The effect of urbanization on plant phenology depends on regional temperature

(2019) Daijiang Li et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shared morphological consequences of global warming in North American migratory birds

(2019) Brian C. Weeks et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2019) Nathan S. Upham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Increased body size along urbanization gradients at both community and intraspecific level in macro-moths

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

(2018) Andrew J. Suggitt et al.   Nature Climate Change

No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species

(2018) Kristina Riemer et al.   eLife

High-resolution reconstruction of the United States human population distribution, 1790 to 2010

(2018) Yu Fang et al.   Scientific Data

Trait-dependent tolerance of bats to urbanization: a global meta-analysis

(2018) Kirsten Jung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Urbanization-driven changes in web building and body size in an orb web spider

(2018) Maxime Dahirel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas

(2018) Arielle Waldstein Parsons et al.   eLife

The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods

(2017) Giovanni Rapacciuolo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Signatures of positive selection and local adaptation to urbanization in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus )

(2017) Stephen E. Harris et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Climate change and body size trends in aquatic and terrestrial endotherms: Does habitat matter?

(2017) Daniel E. Naya et al.   PLoS One

An interspecific assessment of Bergmann’s rule in 22 mammalian families

(2016) Jostein Gohli et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How foraging allometries and resource dynamics could explain Bergmann's rule and the body-size diet relationship in mammals

(2016) Joel S. Brown et al.   OIKOS

The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals

(2016) Silvia Pineda-Munoz et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The importance of digitized biocollections as a source of trait data and a new VertNet resource

(2016) Robert P. Guralnick et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Scientific Data

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

(2015) Christopher D. Ives et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals

(2014) Thomas Ruf et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Body size and activity times mediate mammalian responses to climate change

(2014) Christy M. McCain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of urbanization on breeding birds in European towns: Impacts of species traits

(2014) J. Jokimäki et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Climate warming and ectotherm body size - from individual physiology to community ecology

(2013) Jan Ohlberger   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Microhabitats reduce animal's exposure to climate extremes

(2013) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cranial size has increased over 133 years in a common bat,Pipistrellus kuhlii: a response to changing climate or urbanization?

(2013) Alessandra Tomassini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental, biological and anthropogenic effects on grizzly bear body size: temporal and spatial considerations

(2013) Scott E Nielsen et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities

(2012) Jason D. Fischer et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Size increase in high elevation ground squirrels over the last century

(2012) Lindsey M. Eastman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

(2012) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change

(2011) Jennifer A. Sheridan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Recent spatial and temporal changes in body size of terrestrial vertebrates: probable causes and pitfalls

(2010) Yoram Yom-Tov et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

VertNet: Creating a Data-sharing Community

(2010) Robert Guralnick et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Behavioral thermoregulation in mammals: a review

(2010) Jeremy Terrien   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Effects of urbanization on carnivore species distribution and richness

(2010) Miguel A. Ordeñana et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Geographic and temporal correlations of mammalian size reconsidered: a resource rule

(2010) Brian K. McNab   OECOLOGIA

Lower Extinction Risk in Sleep‐or‐Hide Mammals

(2009) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

DOES URBANIZATION FILTER BIRDS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR BIOLOGICAL TRAITS?

(2008) SOLÈNE CROCI et al.   CONDOR

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying the influence of land-use and surface characteristics on spatial variability in the urban heat island

(2008) Melissa A. Hart et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Rapid morphological and genetic change in Chicago-areaPeromyscus

(2007) OLIVER R. W. PERGAMS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY