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Davis Charles C. Davis Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Charles G. Willis Charles G. Willis Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Richard B. Primack Richard B. Primack Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing Abraham J. Miller-Rushing USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA National Park Service, Acadia National Park, Schoodic Education and Research Center, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Charles C. Davis Charles C. Davis Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Charles G. Willis Charles G. Willis Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Richard B. Primack Richard B. Primack Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing Abraham J. Miller-Rushing USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA National Park Service, Acadia National Park, Schoodic Education and Research Center, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:12 October 2010https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0130 Abstract Climate change has resulted in major changes in the phenology—i.e. the timing of seasonal activities, such as flowering and bird migration—of some species but not others. These differential responses have been shown to result in ecological mismatches that can have negative fitness consequences. However, the ways in which climate change has shaped changes in biodiversity within and across communities are not well understood. Here, we build on our previous results that established a link between plant species' phenological response to climate change and a phylogenetic bias in species' decline in the eastern United States. We extend a similar approach to plant and bird communities in the United States and the UK that further demonstrates that climate change has differentially impacted species based on their phylogenetic relatedness and shared phenological responses. In plants, phenological responses to climate change are often shared among closely related species (i.e. clades), even between geographically disjunct communities. And in some cases, this has resulted in a phylogenetically biased pattern of non-native species success. In birds, the pattern of decline is phylogenetically biased but is not solely explained by phenological response, which suggests that other traits may better explain this pattern. These results illustrate the ways in which phylogenetic thinking can aid in making generalizations of practical importance and enhance efforts to predict species' responses to future climate change. Previous Article Next Article Access options Sign in for Fellows of the Royal Society Please access the online journals via the Fellows’ Room Not a subscriber? You canrequest a library trial. Personal login Username or email Password Forgot password? 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