Eric A. Riddell

TL;DR: Water requirements for evaporative cooling are increasingly likely to drive population declines, providing a physiological basis for climate-driven extinctions as climate change spreads warm, dry conditions across the planet.

TL;DR: It is concluded that incorporating plasticity fundamentally alters ecological predictions under climate change by reducing extinction risk in the hotspot of salamander diversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared changes in species occupancy and site-level richness of small mammal and bird communities in protected areas of the Mojave Desert using surveys spanning a century.

TL;DR: It is shown that variation in R has the potential to alter the duration of activity over the elevational ranges of these species, illustrating the importance of incorporating geographic variation of physiological traits for predicting a species' response to climate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared theoretical and empirical methods for measuring skin resistance to water loss of a Plethodon salamander collected from nature and determined the ecological implications of incorporating skin and boundary layer resistance into a species range model that estimated potential activity time and energy balance throughout the geographic range of the study species.