Species’ traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta-analysis

Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change

(2017) Michela Pacifici et al.   Nature Climate Change

Species’ traits affect the occurrence of birds in a native timber plantation landscape

(2016) E. C. Pryde et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Plant functional diversity mediates the effects of vegetation and soil properties on community-level plant nitrogen use in the restoration of semiarid sandy grassland

(2016) Xiaoan Zuo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Shifts in functional traits elevate risk of fire-driven tree dieback in tropical savanna and forest biomes

(2016) Adam F. A. Pellegrini et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global meta-analysis of native and nonindigenous trophic traits in aquatic ecosystems

(2016) Ella McKnight et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Expanding population edges: theories, traits, and trade-offs

(2016) Angela Chuang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecological and methodological drivers of species’ distribution and phenology responses to climate change

(2016) Christopher J. Brown et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Altitudinal shifts of the native and introduced flora of California in the context of 20th-century warming

(2016) Adam Wolf et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Life History Traits and Niche Instability Impact Accuracy and Temporal Transferability for Historically Calibrated Distribution Models of North American Birds

(2016) Guinevere O. U. Wogan   PLoS One

Usefulness of Species Traits in Predicting Range Shifts

(2016) Alba Estrada et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting the Multiple Facets of Biodiversity

(2016) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Confronting species distribution model predictions with species functional traits

(2016) Marion E. Wittmann et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2016) John J. Wiens   PLOS BIOLOGY

Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

(2015) Jennifer M. Sunday et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Landscape fragmentation affects responses of avian communities to climate change

(2015) Marta A. Jarzyna et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Breeding on the leading edge of a northward range expansion: differences in morphology and the stress response in the arctic Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow

(2015) Jesse S. Krause et al.   OECOLOGIA

Is a community still a community? Reviewing definitions of key terms in community ecology

(2015) James T. Stroud et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

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

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Illuminating geographical patterns in species' range shifts

(2014) Gaël Grenouillet et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecological and life-history traits explain recent boundary shifts in elevation and latitude of western North American songbirds

(2014) Sonya K. Auer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Decline of dry grassland specialists in Mediterranean high-mountain communities influenced by recent climate warming

(2014) Borja Jiménez-Alfaro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rapid upslope shifts in New Guinean birds illustrate strong distributional responses of tropical montane species to global warming

(2014) B. G. Freeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A phylogenetically-informed trait-based analysis of range change in the vascular plant flora of Britain

(2013) Gary D. Powney et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Incorporating Climate Science in Applications of the U.S. Endangered Species Act for Aquatic Species

(2013) MICHELLE M. MCCLURE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Connectivity Planning to Address Climate Change

(2013) TRISTAN A. NUÑEZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Ontario freshwater fishes demonstrate differing range-boundary shifts in a warming climate

(2013) Karen M. Alofs et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Appropriateness of full-, partial- and no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

(2013) Brooke L. Bateman et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Climate change and elevational range shifts: evidence from dung beetles in two European mountain ranges

(2013) Rosa Menéndez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of climate change on communities: revealing species' contribution

(2013) Catherine M. Davey et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

(2013) Wendy B. Foden et al.   PLoS One

Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity

(2013) Kelly J. Iknayan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches to Forecasting Species' Responses to Climate Change

(2012) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Upward shift in elevational plant species ranges in Sikkilsdalen, central Norway

(2012) Vivian Astrup Felde et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges

(2012) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards a more mechanistic understanding of traits and range sizes

(2012) Irina Laube et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

The role of species’ ecological traits in climatically driven altitudinal range shifts of central European birds

(2012) Jirˇí Reif et al.   OIKOS

A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of California's At-Risk Birds

(2012) Thomas Gardali et al.   PLoS One

Dispersal will limit ability of mammals to track climate change in the Western Hemisphere

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

With that diet, you will go far: trait-based analysis reveals a link between rapid range expansion and a nitrogen-favoured diet

(2012) P.-E. Betzholtz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unraveling the Life History of Successful Invaders

(2012) D. Sol et al.   SCIENCE

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution

(2011) Philip A. R. Hockey et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lessons Learned While Integrating Habitat, Dispersal, Disturbance, and Life-History Traits into Species Habitat Models Under Climate Change

(2011) Louis R. Iverson et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The fate of European breeding birds under climate, land-use and dispersal scenarios

(2011) Morgane Barbet-Massin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of the traits affecting dispersal ability in butterflies: can wingspan be used as a proxy?

(2011) Sandhya Sekar   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Biological traits predict shifts in geographical ranges of freshwater invertebrates during climatic warming and drying

(2011) Bruce C. Chessman   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Elevational Ranges of Birds on a Tropical Montane Gradient Lag behind Warming Temperatures

(2011) German Forero-Medina et al.   PLoS One

Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations

(2011) S. M. Crimmins et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

The importance of phylogeny to the study of phenological response to global climate change

(2010) C. C. Davis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological correlates of range shifts of Late Pleistocene mammals

(2010) S. Kathleen Lyons et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Projected range contractions of montane biodiversity under global warming

(2010) F. A. La Sorte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Poleward shifts in breeding bird distributions in New York State

(2009) BENJAMIN ZUCKERBERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

(2009) MATTY P. BERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changing spatial distribution of fish stocks in relation to climate and population size on the Northeast United States continental shelf

(2009) JA Nye et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

Re-Shuffling of Species with Climate Disruption: A No-Analog Future for California Birds?

(2009) Diana Stralberg et al.   PLoS One

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

Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

(2009) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CLIMATE CHANGE CAN CAUSE SPATIAL MISMATCH OF TROPHICALLY INTERACTING SPECIES

(2008) Oliver Schweiger et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species traits explain recent range shifts of Finnish butterflies

(2008) JUHA PÖYRY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A meta-analytic study of the effects of female age on laying-date and clutch-size in the Great Tit Parus major and the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

(2008) ANTERO JARVINEN   IBIS

Ecomorphological predictors of natal dispersal distances in birds

(2008) Britta A. Dawideit et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) C. Moritz et al.   SCIENCE

Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change

(2008) Stephen E Williams et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Upward migration of vascular plants following a climate warming trend in the Alps

(2007) Gilberto Parolo et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY