Poleward and upward shifts are the most frequent types of range shifts that have been
reported in response to contemporary climate change. However, the number of reports�…

Contemporary climate changes have already induced poleward and upward shifts in current
distributions of species worldwide, although there is an important variation among species in�…

Background Among the most widely predicted climate change-related impacts to biodiversity
are geographic range shifts, whereby species shift their spatial distribution to track their�…

Predicting the extent and direction of species' range shifts is a major priority for scientists
and resource managers. Seminal studies have fostered the notion that biological systems�…

Aim Do species range shapes follow general patterns? If so, what mechanisms underlie
those patterns? We show for 11,582 species from a variety of taxa across the world that most�…

Although bioclimatic modelling is often used to estimate potential impacts of likely climate
changes, little has been done to assess the reliability and variability of projections. Here�…

Aim To investigate the velocity of species‐specific exposure to climate change for mid‐and
late 21st century and develop metrics that quantify exposure to climate change over space�…

A growing body of literature seeks to explain variation in range shifts using species'
ecological and life‐history traits, with expectations that shifts should be greater in species�…

Projections of species' distribution under global change (climatic and environmental) are of
great scientific and societal relevance. They rely on a proper understanding of how�…

Global climate change is a major threat to biodiversity. The most common methods for
predicting the response of biodiversity to changing climate do not explicitly incorporate�…