Shan Huang

TL;DR: Although expansion of thermal tolerances is key to the OTT dynamic, most latitudinally widespread species instead achieve their broad ranges by tracking widespread, spatially-uniform temperatures within the tropics (yielding, via the nonlinear relation between temperature and latitude, a pattern opposite to Rapoport’s rule).

TL;DR: This work synthesizes current LDG hypotheses, uncovering their eco-evolutionary mechanisms, hidden assumptions, and commonalities, and proposes mechanistic eco-Evolutionary modeling and an inferential approach that makes use of geographic, phylogenetic, and trait-based patterns to assess the relative importance of different processes for generating the LDG.

TL;DR: How the perspectives and tools of macroecology, a field that investigates patterns and processes at broad spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales, are expanding scientific understanding of global infectious disease ecology is considered.

TL;DR: An updated version of the Global Mammal Parasite Database is presented, a database of the parasites of wild ungulates, carnivores, and primates, and it is made available for download as complete flat files.

TL;DR: It is argued that many of the most dramatic biotic patterns, past and present, are likely to have been generated by diverse, mutually reinforcing drivers.