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2026
Oliveira, B. F.,, R. Bertrand, M.L. Pinsky, N. Casajus, B. Wolfe, B.R. Scheffers, F. Villalobos, G. Grenouillet, G. Pecl, I-C. Chen, J.A. Baecher, J. A. Lawlor*, J.M. Sunday, J. Murienne, J. Rolland, L.M. Thompson, L. Lancaster, M.A. Rubenstein, N.A. Moore*, R.M.W.J Bandara, S.E Diamond, S.R. Weiskopf, J. Lenoir, L. Comte. Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (14), e2515903123

Preprints:
Griffith, J.*, J.M. Sunday, A.L Hargreaves. Urbanization weakens the latitudinal diversity gradient in birds. Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Preprint:  https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.04.668553

Moore, N.A.*, J. Lenoir, L. Comte, J.M. Sunday. Dispersal rate limits range expansions only when it is slower than the velocity of climate change. Submitted to Ecology Letters. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.16.712231

Mosca*, H., N. Moore*, L. Gervais*, J.M. Sunday. Thermal performance in fishes varies systematically across latitude, habitat, and biological organization. Submitted to Proc. Roy. Soc. B. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.05.709660
2025
Gonzalez, A., M.I. O’Connor, A.E. Bates, K.Bobiwash, A.C.Burton , P. van Dam-Bates, I. Eckert, D. Gravel, C. Julián Idrobo, L. Pollock, A.D.F. Simon, M.A. Slein, P.S ólymos, B.M. Starzomski, J.M. Sunday, and E. Tekwa. 2025A Biodiversity Observation Network to support conservation action and mainstream knowledge in Canada. FACETS. 10: 1-19.

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A. L. Fredston, M. W. Tingley, M. H. C. Neate-Clegg, L. J. Evans, L. H. Antão, N. C. Ban, I.-C. Chen, Y.-W. Chen, L. Comte, D. P. Edwards, B. Evengard, B. Fadrique, S. H. Falkeis, R. Guralnick, D. H. Klinges, J. J. Lembrechts, J. Lenoir, J. Palacios-Abrantes, A. Pauchard, G. Pecl, M. L. Pinsky, R. A. Senior, J. E. Smith, L. G. Soifer, J.M. Sunday, K. D. Tape, P. Washam, B. R. Scheffers. 2025. Reimagining species on the move across space and time. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Early Online Access.

J. W. White, J. K. Hopf, N. Arafeh-Dalmau, N. C. Ban, A. E. Bates, J. Claudet, C. Lopazanski, J. M. Sunday, J. E. Caselle. 2025. Measurements, mechanisms, and management recommendations for how marine protected areas can provide climate resilience. ​Marine Policy 171 (106419).
2024
Sunday, J.M., J. Bernhardt*, C. Harley, M.I. O’Connor. 2024. Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton. Ecology Letters 27 (1), e14337.

​Lawlor, J.A.*, L. Comte, G. Grenouillet, J. Lenoir, J.A. Baecher, R.M.W.J. Bandara, R. Bertrand, I-C. Chen, S. E. Diamond, L.T. Lancaster, N. Moore*, J. Murienne, B.F. Oliveira, G.T. Pecl, M.L. Pinsky, J. Rolland, M.Rubenstein, B.Scheffers, L.M. Thompson, B. van Amerom*, F. Villalobos, S.R. Weiskopf, J.M. Sunday. Mechanisms, detections, and impacts of species redistributions under climate change. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 5(5):351-368.

Millard-Martin, B.*, K. Sheridan*, E. Morien, M.A. Lemay, M. Hessing-Lewis, M. Hessing-Lewis, R.B.G. Clemente-Carvalho, J.M. Sunday. 2025. Effect of environmental DNA sampling resolution in detecting nearshore fish biodiversity compared to capture surveys. PeerJ, 12, e17967.

Rehill, T.*, B. Millard‐Martin*, M. Lemay, K. Sheridan*, A. Mueller,* E. Morien, R.B.G. Clemente‐Carvalho, B.P.V. Hunt, J.M. Sunday. 2024. Detection differences between eDNA and mid‐water trawls are driven by fish biomass and habitat preferences. Environmental DNA, 6(4), e586.

Griffith J.*, E. Houghton, M.A. Slein, M.F. Franco, J. Chávez, A. Forsythe, V.M.. Glynn, E. Katkov, K.M. Palmier, Z. Sang, R. Trejo-Pérez, B. Wiley, J.M. Sunday, J.M. Bernhardt. Harnessing publicly available datasets to teach ecology and evolution using online interactive tutorials. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6):e11179.

Comte, L., R. Bertrand, S.E Diamond, L.Lancaster, M.L Pinsky, B.R Scheffers, J.A Baecher, R. Bandara, I-C. Chen, J.A Lawlor*, N.A Moore*, B.F Oliveira, J.Murienne, J.Rolland, M.A Rubenstein, J.M. Sunday, L.M Thompson, F.Villalobos, S.R. Weiskopf, J.Lenoir. 2024. Bringing traits back in the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution. 30(4) e17271 Global Change Biology.

2023
Moore N.*, I. Morales-Castilla, A.L. Hargreaves, M.Á. Olalla-Tárraga, F. Villalobos, P. Calosi, S. Clusella-Trullas, J.G. Rubalcaba, A.C. Algar, B. Martínez, L. Rodríguez, S.Gravel, J. M. Bennett, G.C. Vega, C. Rahbek, M.B. Araújo, J.R. Bernhardt*, J.M. Sunday. 2023. Temperate species underfill their tropical thermal potentials on land. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7: 1993–2003.

Rubalcaba, J.G.*, Gouveia, S. F., Villalobos, Olalla-Tárraga, M. Á., Sunday, J.M. 2023. Climate drives global functional trait variation in lizards. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7: 524–534.

JK Briand, HM Guzman, JM Sunday. 2023. Spatio-temporal patterns in coral reef composition and function across an altered environmental gradient: a 15-year study in the Caribbean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:2682.

2022
Sunday, J.M., E. Howard, S. Siedlecki, D. Pilcher, C. Deutsch, P. McCready, J. Newton, E. Franke, T. Klinger. Biological effects of downscaled climate change projections in the California Current marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology. code | data
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Bledsoe, EK, JB Burant*, GT Higino, DG Roche, SA Binning, K Finlay, J Pither, LS Pollock, JM Sunday, DS Srivastava. 2022. Data rescue: saving environmental data from extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289:1979. 

2021
Bennett, J.M., J.M. Sunday, P. Calosi, F. Villalobos, B. Martínez, R. Molina-Venegas, M.B. Araújo, A.C. Algar, S. Clusella-Trullas, B.A. Hawkins, S.A. Keith, I. Kühn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodríguez, A. Singer, I. Morales-Castilla, M. Ángel Olalla-Tárraga. The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nature Communications. 12, 1198 2021. 
​Srivastava, D.S., L. Coristine, A.L. Angert, Bontrager, S.L. Amundrud, J.L. Williams, A.C.Y. Yeung, D.R de Zwaan, P.L Thompson, S.N. Aitken, J.M. Sunday, M.I. O'Connor, J. Whitton, N.E.M. Brown, C.D. MacLeod, L.W. Parfrey, J.R. Bernhardt, J. Carrillo, C.D.G. Harley, P.T. Martone, B.G. Freeman, M. Tseng, S.D. Donner. 2021. Wildcards in climate change biology.  Ecological Monographs, 91(4).

Hofmann, G.E., E.L. Hazen, R.F. Ambrose, D. Aseltine-Neilson, H. Carter, J.E. Caselle, F. Chan, D. Kone, A. Levine, F. Micheli, D. Panos, J.M. Sunday, J.W. White, Climate Resilience and California’s Marine Protected Area Network: A Report by the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Working Group and California Ocean Science Trust, June 2021. (non-refereed gov. report)

Bennett, J.M., Sunday, J.M., Piero Calosi, Fabricio Villalobos, Brezo Martínez, Rafael Molina-Venegas, Miguel B. Araújo, Adam C. Algar, Susana Clusella-Trullas, Bradford A. Hawkins, Sally A. Keith, Ingolf Kühn, Carsten Rahbek, Laura Rodríguez, Alexander Singer, Ignacio Morales-Castilla, Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga. 2021. The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nature Communications. 12, 1198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8

Buxton, R.T., Bennett, J.R., Reid, A.J., Shulman, C., Cooke, S.J., Francis, C.M., Nyboer, E., Pritchard, G., Binley, A., Avery-Gomm, S., Ban, N.C., Beazley, K.F., Bennett, E., Blight, L.K., Bortolotti, L.E., Camfield, A.F., Gadallah, Z., Jacob, A.L., Naujokaitis-Lewis, I., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Roche, D.G., Soulard, F., Stralberg, D., Sadler, K.D., Solarik, K.A., Ziter, C.D., Brandt, J., McKindsey, C., Greenwood, D.A., Boxall, P.C., Ngolah, C.F., Chan, K.M.A., Lapen, D., Poser, S., Girard, J., DiBacco, C., Hayne, S., Orihel, D., Lewis, D.W., Littlechild, D., Marshall, S.J., McDermott, L., Whitlow, R., Browne, D., Sunday, J., and Smith, P.A. 2021. Key information needs to move from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada. Biological Conservation. 256:108983.

2020
Bernhardt, J.R., O’Connor, M.I., Sunday, J.M, and A. Gonzalez. 2020. Life in fluctuating environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0454

Sunday, JM. 2020. When do fish succumb to heat? Science. 369 (6499), 35-36.

Sunday, JM. 2020. The pace of biodiversity change in a warming climate. Nature. 580 (7804), 460-461.

Bernhardt, JR, O’Connor, MI, Sunday, JM and A Gonzalez. 2020. Life in fluctuating environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 375 (1814).

Pérez-Jvostov, F, WJ Sutherland, RDH Barrett, CA Brown, JA Cardille, SJ Cooke, ME Cristescu, NF St-Gelais, GF Fussmann, K Griffiths, AP Hendry, NWR Lapointe, EA Nyboer, RL Pentland, AJ Reid, A Ricciardi, JM Sunday, I Gregory-Eaves. 2020. Horizon scan of conservation issues for inland waters in Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 77 (5), 869-881

2019
ML Pinsky, AM Eikeset, DJ McCauley, JL Payne, JM Sunday​. 2019. Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms. Nature. 569: 108.
​Summary: Nature News and Views
​​​​​Media coverage: National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Inside Climate News, Mashable.com, Anthropocene Magazine
​Sunday, JM, JM Bennett, P Calosi, S Clusella-Trullas, S Gravel, AL Hargreaves, F Leiva, W Verberk, M Ángel Olalla-Tárraga, I Morales-Castilla. 2019. Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 374 (1778), 20190036.
JB Harrison, JM Sunday, SM Rogers. 2019. Predicting the fate of eDNA in the environment and implications for studying biodiversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1915), 20191409. pdf
JM Donelson, JM Sunday, WF Figueira, JD Gaitán-Espitia, AJ Hobday, CR Johnson, JM Leis, SD Ling, D Marshall, JM Pandolfi, G Pecl, GG Rodgers, D J Booth, P L Munday. 2019. ​Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 374 (1768), 20180186
D'Aloia, C, I Naujokaitis-Lewis, C Blackford, C Chu, J Curtis, E Darling, F Guichard, SJ Leroux, AC Martensen, B Rayfield, JM Sunday, A Xuereb, M-J Fortin. 2019. Coupled networks of permanent protected areas and dynamic conservation areas for biodiversity conservation under climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, 27.
2018
​Bernhardt, JR, JM Sunday, MI O’Connor. Metabolic theory and the temperature-size rule explain the temperature dependence of population carrying capacity. The American Naturalist. 192 (6), 687-697.
​Summary by The American Naturalist
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Recommendation by Faculty of 1000
Bernhardt JR, JM Sunday, PL Thompson, MI O'Connor. Nonlinear averaging of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in a thermally variable environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 285(1886):20181076
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Links: graphical abstract, data, code
Freeman BG, JA Lee‐Yaw, JM Sunday, AL Hargreaves. Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(11): 1268-1276.
Bennett, J.M., P. Calosi, S. Clusella-Trullas, B. Martínez, J.M. Sunday, A.C. Algar, M.B. Araújo, B.A. Hawkins, S. Keith, I. Kühn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodríguez, A. Singer, F. Villalobos, M. Ángel Olalla-Tárraga, I. Morales-Castilla. GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Nature Scientific Data. 5, 18002.
2017
JM Sunday. 2017. Survival of the Finfish. 2017. Nature Climate Change. 7:692–693.

​Pecl, GT, MB Araújo, JD Bell, J Blanchard, TC Bonebrake, I-Ching Che, TD Clark, R Colwell, F Danielsen, B Evengård, L Falconi, S Ferrier, S Frusher, RA Garcia, AJ Hobday, C Janion-Scheepers, MA Jarzyna, S Jennings, J Lenoir, HI Linnetved, VY Martin, PC McCormack, J McDonald, NJ Mitchell, T Mustonen, JM Pandolfi, N Pettorelli, E Popova, Sharon A Robinson, BR Scheffers, JD Shaw, CJB Sorte, JM Strugnell, JM Sunday, M-N Tuanmu, A Vergés, C Villanueva, T Wernberg, E Wapstra, SE Williams. 2017. Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science. 355:6332, eaai9214
​Video abstract
​​​​​Media coverage: National Geographic, The Conversation, The Guardian, ScienceNordic (Norway and Denmark), CBC (Canada), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), TodayOnline (Singapore), Science et Avenir (France)
​Osmond, M.M., M. Barbour, J. Bernhardt, M. Pennel, J.M. Sunday, M.I. O'Connor. 2017. Warming induced changes to body size stabilize consumer-resource dynamics. The American Naturalist. 189(6): 718-725.
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Summary by The American Naturalist
2016
JM Sunday, KE Fabricius, KJ Kroeker, KM Anderson, NE Brown, JP Barry, SD Connell, S Dupont, B Gaylord, JM Hall-Spencer, T Klinger, M Milazzo, PL Munday, BD Russell, E Sanford, V Thiyagarajan, MLH Vaughan, S Widdicombe, and CDG Harley. 2016. ​Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat. Nature Climate Change. 7: 81–85.
​Media coverage: Inside Climate News, Metro News, Vancouver, Science World Report, ​iTechPost
​Patiño, S, CC Keever, JM Sunday, I Popovic, M Byrne, MW Hart. 2016. Sperm Bindin Divergence under Sexual Selection and Concerted Evolution in Sea Stars. Molecular biology and evolution. msw081.
​Commentary by Molecular Biology and Evolution
2015
​Sunday, J.M., G.T. Pecl, S.Frusher, A.J. Hobday, N.Hill, N.J. Holbrook, G.J. Edgar, R. Stuart-Smith, N. Barrett, T. Wernberg, R.A. Watson, D.A. Smale, E.A. Fulton, D. Slawinski, M. Feng, B.T. Radford, P.A. Thompson, A.E. Bates. 2015.​​ Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean warming hotspot. Ecology Letters 18(9): 944-953.

​Media coverage: Pacific Standard Magazine, Conservation Magazine
Bates,​ A.E., T.J. Bird, R.D. Stuart‐Smith, T. Wernberg, J.M. Sunday, N.S. Barrett, G.J. Edgar, S. Frusher, A.J. Hobday, G.T. Pecl, D.A. Smale, M. McCarthy. 2015. Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling effort. Diversity and Distributions. 21(1):13-22.
Gaylord, B., K.J. Kroeker, J.M. Sunday, K.M. Anderson, J.P. Barry, N.E. Brown, S.D. Connel, S. Dupont, K.E. Fabricius, J.M. Hall-Spencer, T. Klinger, M. Milazzo, P.L. Munday, B.D. Russel, E. Sanford, S. J. Schreiber, V. Thiyagarajan. 2015. Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology. 96(1): 3-15.
2014
​Sunday, J.M., A.E. Bates, M.R. Kearney, R.K. Colwell, N.K. Dulvy, J.T. Longino, R.B. Huey. 2014. Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  111(15): 5610-5615.    

​​​​​Media coverage: Phys.org, CBC radio
Sunday, J.M., P. Calosi, T. Reusch, S. Dupont, P. Munday, J. Stillman. 2014. Evolution in an acidifying ocean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 29(2):117-125.
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Media coverage: Scientific American, Seattle Times, Nature News
Sunday, J.M., W. Palen, M. Foreman, I. Popovic, M.W. Hart. 2014. Oceanographic circulation predicts low larval dispersal and observed genetic structure along a complex coastline. Molecular Ecology, 23(20), 5036-5047.
Bates, A.E., G.T. Pecl, S. Frusher, A.J. Hobday, T. Wernberg, D.A. Smale, J.M. Sunday, N.A. Hill, N.K. Dulvy, R.K. Colwell, N.J. Holbrook, E.A. Fulton, D. Slawinski, M. Feng, G.J. Edgar, Ben T. Radford, Peter A. Thompson, Reg A. Watson. 2014. Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems. Global Environmental Change. 26: 27-38.
Hart, M.W., J.M. Sunday, I. Popovic, K.J. Learning, C.M. Konrad. 2014. Incipient speciation of sea star populations by adaptive gamete recognition coevolution. Evolution. 68 (5): 1294-1305, 2014

2013
Sunday, J.M. and M.W. Hart. 2013. Sea star populations diverge by positive selection at a sperm-egg compatibility locus. Ecology and Evolution. 3(3): 640–654.
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2012
​Sunday J.M., A.E. Bates, N.K. Dulvy. 2012. Thermal tolerance and the redistribution of animals. Nature Climate Change. 2: 686–690. (Cover article)
Recommendation by Faculty of 1000
News coverage: Science News Online

2011
Sunday J.M., R.N. Crim, C.D. Harley, M.W. Hart. 2011. Quantifying rates of evolutionary adaptation in response to ocean acidification. PLOSOne. 6(8).
​Media coverage: The Seattle Times, Nature News Blog

Sunday J.M., A.E. Bates, N.K. Dulvy. 2011. Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 278, 1823–1830.
Recommendation by Faculty of 1000

Crim, RN, J.M. Sunday, C.D. Harley. 2011. Elevated CO2 concentrations impair larval development and reduce larval survival in endangered Northern abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology,  400 (1-2): 272-277.
​​Media coverage Science Daily

2009
Keever, C., J. Sunday, J. Puritz, J. Addison, R. Toonen, R. Grosberg, M. Hart.  2009.  Discordant distribution of populations and genetic variation in a sea star with high dispersal potential.  Evolution. 63(12): 3214-3237.

2008
Sunday, J., L. Raeburn, H. Stewart, and M.W. Hart.  2008.  Allelic inheritance in naturally occurring parthenogenetic offspring of the gonochoric sea star Patiria miniata.  Invertebrate Biology. 128(3): 276-282.

Sunday J., L. Raeburn, and M. Hart. 2008. Emerging infectious disease in sea stars: castrating ciliate parasites in Patiria miniata. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 81: 173-176.

Keever, C., J. Sunday, C. Wood, M. Byrne, and M. Hart.  2008. Microsatellite cross-amplification in asterinid sea stars.  Biological Bulletin. 215: 164-172.

​2007
Hart, M. and J. Sunday. 2007. Things fall apart: biological species form unconnected parsimony networks. Biology Letters 3: 605-512.

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