Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

By J. Gardner, Anne Peters, Michael R. Kearney, L. Joseph, Robert Heinsohn. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change (2011, background): “The increased temperatures and variability of precipitation associated with climate change are likely to influence the size of organisms, from primary producers to top predator”
Temperature‐driven shifts in a host‐parasite interaction drive nonlinear changes in disease risk (2012, background): “Climate change has been linked to poleward range-shifts, earlier phenologies, and declining body sizes of individual species (Parmesan & Yohe, 2003; Menzel et al., 2006; Gilman et al., 2010; Walther, 2010; Gardner et al., 2011).”
Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples (2018, background): “…have focused on phenological shifts (Ramula et al. 2015) and much less is known about morphological change, despite growing evidence for pervasive shifts in the body size and shape of organisms as a response to climate change (Millien et al. 2006; Gardner et al. 2011; Teplitsky & Millien 2014).”
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of large terrestrial mammals to heat and aridity associated with climate change (2016, background): “The upper critical limit of the thermoneutral zone has been advocated as an index to predict the sensitivity and vulnerability of mammals to heat associated with climate change (for example, [12, 72, 73]).”
Cranial size has increased over 133 years in a common bat, Pipistrellus kuhlii: a response to changing climate or urbanization? (2014, background): “Smaller-bodied individuals are, however, disadvantaged when exposed to short bouts of temperature extremes that lead to acute dehydration and increased mortality (Easterling et al., 2000; Gardner et al., 2011); under such conditions, larger-bodied individuals are at an advantage because their larger”
Morphological traits are linked to the cold performance and distribution of bees along elevational gradients (2016, background): “…thermal performance of organisms and determining their distribution in natural ecosystems might be valuable for understanding species geographical ranges and to predict their response to climatic changes (Gardner et al., 2011; Buckley & Kingsolver, 2012; Secord et al., 2012; Moritz & Agudo, 2013).”
Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches to Forecasting Species' Responses to Climate Change (2012, background): “For example, recent studies have documented shifts in body size (Gardner et al. 2011) and coloration (linked to fitness as a function of snow cover; Karell et al.”
Odonata as candidate macroecological barometers for global climate change (2015, background): “However, wider taxonomic surveys have shown that—as with distributional and phenological responses— this ‘rule’ has a number of exceptions (Gardner et al. 2011).”
Demographic changes in Chinook salmon across the Northeast Pacific Ocean (2018, background): “While the faster life history with higher growth rate and smaller maximum size could be a response to climate warming (Cheung et al., 2013; Gardner et al., 2011; Ohlberger, 2013; Sheridan & Bickford, 2011), temperatures in the coastal waters of the Northeast Pacific (Figure 8) have been highly…”
Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015, background): “These trends are consistent with increasing evidence collected by biologists documenting a general pattern of reduced body size for a diversity of species living today, which is linked to a warming climate over the past century (Gardner et al. 2011).”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “It has been observed in almost all ectotherms that have been investigated (Daufresne et al., 2009; Walters and Hassall, 2006; but see, O’Gorman et al., 2012; Gardner et al., 2011), yet a precise mechanism remains elusive (Forster and Hirst, 2012, Forster et al., 2011).”
Avian body size changes and climate change: warming or increasing variability? (2012, background): “Among birds, researchers have documented variation in the magnitude and direction of morphological changes (Gardner et al., 2011).”
Climate warming and ectotherm body size – from individual physiology to community ecology (2013, background): “2011; Sheridan & Bickford 2011) and have been suggested to represent a third universal response to global warming (Gardner et al. 2011).”