Albert B. Phillimore

May 13, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jamie Weir |Albert B. Phillimore

1 INTRODUCTION Phenology—the timing of life history events—often plays a central role in structuring interaction networks, including food-webs. Where resource inputs are pulsed, such as in temperate forests and lakes in the spring, bursts of primary productivity and trophic interactions can be highly ephemeral (i.e. short-lived); a scenario that is expected to place the phenology of consumers under strong selection for synchrony with key resources (Cushing, 1969, 1990; Durant et al., 2007).

Aug 9, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sinéad Collins |Simon Martin |Alex Pigot |Albert B. Phillimore

ABSTRACT In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we seldom have sufficient long-term biological data to use the past to anticipate the future, spatial climate–biotic relationships are often used as a proxy for predicting biotic responses to climate change over time.