Tolerance to Daily Versus Seasonal Temperature Changes May Dictate Fitness (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Tolerance to Daily Versus Seasonal Temperature Changes May Dictate Fitness (1 of 3)

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A new study on climatic variability and species distribution has proposed a novel macroecological pattern that elevational range size of vertebrate species is negatively correlated with diurnal temperature range, contradicting all existing hypotheses on the relationship between climatic variability and species range size. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 March 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.-P. Chan at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues was titled, "Seasonal and daily climate variation have opposite effects on species elevational range size."

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Jeng-Hao Yu

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