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

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

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Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor swinhosii) at Taroko National Park, Taiwan -- A new study tests the classical hypothesis for the elevational range sizes of more than 16,500 terrestrial vertebrates on 180 montane gradients has demonstrated that elevational range size of 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 March 25, 2016 issue of <i>Science</i>, 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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Si-Yi Liu

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