Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Reduced body sizes in climate-impacted Borneo moth assemblages are primarily explained by range shifts

  • Chung-Huey Wu,
  • Jeremy D. Holloway,
  • Jane K. Hill,
  • Chris D. Thomas,
  • I-Ching Chen,
  • Chuan-Kai Ho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12655-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Body size shifts under climate change may arise from species range shifts, intraspecific size shifts, or both. Here the authors show that body size reduction in moth assemblages on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo, over 42 years are driven more by species range shifts than by within-species shrinkage.