Our understanding of species’ responses to climate depends on choosing the scale for the analysis. Processes driving physiological adaptation that occur at the small spatial scales most relevant to animals may be masked in correlations between organismal traits and broad-scale climatologies, but the extent to which this undermines our understanding of the macroevolution of physiological traits is unknown.

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一种理解生理与气候关联的分层方法

我们对物种对气候反应的理解取决于选择分析的尺度。在与动物最相关的小空间尺度上发生的驱动生理适应的过程可能被有机体特征和大尺度气候学之间的相关性所掩盖，但这在多大程度上破坏了我们对生理特征宏观进化的理解是未知的。