Rates of change in climatic niches in plant and animal populations are much slower than projected climate change

Climate change is projected to outpace rates of niche change in grasses

(2016) F. Alice Cang et al.   Biology Letters

Climate-Related Local Extinctions Are Already Widespread among Plant and Animal Species

(2016) John J. Wiens   PLOS BIOLOGY

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

(2015) M. C. Urban   SCIENCE

Latitudinal gradients in climatic-niche evolution accelerate trait evolution at high latitudes

(2014) Adam M. Lawson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects

(2014) Nancy Ockendon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Is diversification rate related to climatic niche width?

(2014) Carola Gómez-Rodríguez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

How Does Climate Influence Speciation?

(2013) Xia Hua et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species

(2013) Ignacio Quintero et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Explaining Andean megadiversity: the evolutionary and ecological causes of glassfrog elevational richness patterns

(2013) Carl R. Hutter et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diurnal lighting patterns and habitat alter opsin expression and colour preferences in a killifish

(2013) A. M. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

(2013) R. A. Pyron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TreeSnatcher plus: capturing phylogenetic trees from images

(2012) Thomas Laubach et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

An asymmetry in niche conservatism contributes to the latitudinal species diversity gradient in New World vertebrates

(2012) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode

(2012) Gene Hunt   PALEOBIOLOGY

Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders

(2012) B. Petitpierre et al.   SCIENCE

Niche shifting in response to warming climate after the last glacial maximum: inference from genetic data and niche assessments in the chisel-toothed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys microps)

(2011) Tereza Jezkova et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Niche Conservatism Drives Elevational Diversity Patterns in Appalachian Salamanders

(2010) Kenneth H. Kozak et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification

(2010) Kenneth H. Kozak et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rising environmental temperatures and biogeography: poleward range contraction of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis L., in the western Atlantic

(2010) Sierra J. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates

(2010) Jessica A. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Linking global climate and temperature variability to widespread amphibian declines putatively caused by disease

(2010) J. R. Rohr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms

(2010) J. M. Sunday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

Niche shift versus niche conservatism? Climatic characteristics of the native and invasive ranges of the Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)

(2009) Dennis Rödder et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

(2009) R. D. Holt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change

(2008) M. E Visser   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

(2008) C. Moritz et al.   SCIENCE