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

Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity

(2012) Céline Bellard et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

HOW IS THE RATE OF CLIMATIC-NICHE EVOLUTION RELATED TO CLIMATIC-NICHE BREADTH?

(2012) M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid et al.   EVOLUTION

What determines the climatic niche width of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation in three vertebrate clades

(2012) Ignacio Quintero et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2012) Gene Hunt   PALEOBIOLOGY

Limited evolutionary rescue of locally adapted populations facing climate change

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

Are species' responses to global change predicted by past niche evolution?

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

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

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

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

Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian megadiversity

(2011) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

LINEAGE DIVERSIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A LARGE-SCALE CONTINENTAL RADIATION: THE NEOTROPICAL OVENBIRDS AND WOODCREEPERS (AVES: FURNARIIDAE)

(2011) Elizabeth P. Derryberry et al.   EVOLUTION

Ecological niche conservatism: a time-structured review of evidence

(2011) A. Townsend Peterson   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Crest evolution in newts: implications for reconstruction methods, sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and the origin of novelties

(2011) J. J. WIENS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia

(2011) Trina E. Roberts et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Pleistocene Climate, Phylogeny, and Climate Envelope Models: An Integrative Approach to Better Understand Species' Response to Climate Change

(2011) A. Michelle Lawing et al.   PLoS One

The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts

(2011) J. C. Uyeda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals

(2011) N. Cooper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequences and the Phylogeny of Cranes (Gruiformes: Gruidae)

(2010) Carey Krajewski et al.   AUK

Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation

(2010) JOHN J. WIENS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification

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

CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS

(2010) John E. McCormack et al.   EVOLUTION

Temporal and spatial diversification of Pteroglossus araçaris (AVES: Ramphastidae) in the neotropics: Constant rate of diversification does not support an increase in radiation during the Pleistocene

(2010) Swati Patel et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

Accommodating Heterogenous Rates of Evolution in Molecular Divergence Dating Methods: An Example Using Intercontinental Dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) Lizards

(2010) Matthew C. Brandley et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF HIGH TROPICAL DIVERSITY IN OLD WORLD FROGS (RANIDAE)

(2009) John J. Wiens et al.   EVOLUTION

Can the tropical conservatism hypothesis explain temperate species richness patterns? An inverse latitudinal biodiversity gradient in the New World snake tribe Lampropeltini

(2009) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bridging the gap between community ecology and historical biogeography: niche conservatism and community structure in emydid turtles

(2009) P. R. STEPHENS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Patterns and processes of diversification in a widespread and ecologically diverse avian group, the buteonine hawks (Aves, Accipitridae)

(2009) Fábio Raposo do Amaral et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Life history influences rates of climatic niche evolution in flowering plants

(2009) S. A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Testing Species-Level Diversification Hypotheses in Madagascar: The Case of Microendemic Brookesia Leaf Chameleons

(2009) Ted M. Townsend et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation

(2008) Klaus-Peter Koepfli et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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