Ecoregion shapes the range response

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0586-6

Within a single species, different populations can show strikingly varied responses to climate – often attributed to genetic differences of geographically separated populations. Now an elegant analysis, weaving together modelling with large-scale empirical data, demonstrates that ecoregion explains spatial variation in climate responses of the American pika.