Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change

By J. Sheridan, D. Bickford. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Cranial size has increased over 133 years in a common bat, Pipistrellus kuhlii: a response to changing climate or urbanization? (2014, background): “Climate change has been identified as a current cause of variation in body size over time (e.g. Daufresne et al., 2009; Pergrams & Lawler, 2009; Genner et al., 2010; Yom-Tov et al., 2010a; Sheridan & Bickford, 2011).”
Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments (2016, neutral): “The existing literature largely agrees with this decrease in body size (Sheridan & Bickford, 2011), but currently suggests that darker melanic individuals will tend to be favoured under climate change scenarios (Roulin, 2014).”
Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity. (2012, background): “Such models are likely to be very powerful, particularly given predicted and experimentally-demonstrated effects of climate change on body size, species abundances, and prey selection in food webs [38], which have currently unknown effects on ecosystem function.”
Demographic changes in Chinook salmon across the Northeast Pacific Ocean (2018, background): “…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 variable with only weak…”
Experimental warming in the field delays phenology and reduces body mass, fat content and survival: Implications for the persistence of a pollinator under climate change (2018, background): “…warming may have ramifications for insect population dynamics, species interactions, ecosystem function, and the local persistence or extinction of insect species (e.g. Burkle, Marlin, & Knight, 2013; Deutsch et al., 2008; Forrest & Chisholm, 2017; Kingsolver, 1989; Sheridan & Bickford, 2011).”
Thermal Buffering of Microhabitats is a Critical Factor Mediating Warming Vulnerability of Frogs in the Philippine Biodiversity Hotspot (2013, background): “Climate warming has triggered numerous ecological responses (Parmesan 2006) that include species range shifts (Chen et al. 2011), decreased fitness in adults and offspring (Derocher et al. 2004), and even a global reduction in species’ body size (Sheridan & Bickford 2011).”
Salinity shapes zooplankton communities and functional diversity and has complex effects on size structure in lakes (2018, background): “It is therefore possible that an increasing salinity scenario produced by climate change may create the same size-decline trend as warming since the general mechanisms in both cases include metabolic shifts and energy reallocation (Sheridan & Bickford, 2011).”
Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review (2019, background): “For instance, higher temperatures, which lead to increased metabolic costs, are generally expected to drive shifts towards smaller body sizes in ecto‐ therms (Merckx et al., 2018; Sheridan & Bickford, 2011).”
Tolerance landscapes in thermal ecology (2014, background): “Small and large organisms may exhibit very different strategies to cope with temperature stress, and size-mediated effects in thermal tolerance might partly account for the general trend of shrinking sizes with warmer temperatures observed in a variety of organisms (Sheridan & Bickford 2011).”