The 2008 NAS Sackler Colloquium on Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution,” held December 12–13, 2008, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, CA.

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Colloquium Papers: Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change
Morgan W. Tingley, William B. Monahan, Steven R. Beissinger, and Craig Moritz

Colloquium Papers: Niches and distributional areas: Concepts, methods, and assumptions
Jorge Soberón and Miguel Nakamura

Colloquium Papers: Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche
Robert K. Colwell and Thiago F. Rangel

Colloquium Papers: Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives
Robert D. Holt

Colloquium Papers: Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms
Warren P. Porter and Michael Kearney

Colloquium Papers: Phylogenetic structure in tropical hummingbird communities
Catherine H. Graham, Juan L. Parra, Carsten Rahbek, and Jimmy A. McGuire

Colloquium Papers: Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islands
Jordan G. Okie and James H. Brown

Colloquium Papers: Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions
Stephen T. Jackson, Julio L. Betancourt, Robert K. Booth, and Stephen T. Gray


Colloquium Papers: The niche, limits to species' distributions, and spatiotemporal variation in demography across the elevation ranges of two monkeyflowers
Amy L. Angert

Colloquium Papers: Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal
David Ackerly

Colloquium Papers: Niche conservatism above the species level
Elizabeth A. Hadly, Paula A. Spaeth, and Cheng Li

Colloquium Papers: Reconstruction of the climate envelopes of salamanders and their evolution through time
David R. Vieites, Sandra Nieto-Román, and David B. Wake

Colloquium Papers: Climatic extremes improve predictions of spatial patterns of tree species
Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Thomas C. Edwards, Jr, Eliane S. Meier, Wilfried Thuiller, Antoine Guisan, Dirk R. Schmatz, and Peter B. Pearman


Colloquium Papers: Niches, models, and climate change: Assessing the assumptions and uncertainties
John A. Wiens, Diana Stralberg, Dennis Jongsomjit, Christine A. Howell, and Mark A. Snyder

Colloquium Papers: Ecological specialization and population size in a biodiversity hotspot: How rare species avoid extinction
S. E. Williams, Y. M. Williams, J. VanDerWal, J. L. Isaac, L. P. Shoo, and C. N. Johnson