Climate change and ectotherms - How rising temperatures might elevate rates of evolution

This data set includes R scripts & additional tables created by Lennart Gries for a master's thesis conducted at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and Senckenberg Biodiversity- and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), being supervised by Prof. Susanne Fritz and Prof. Markus Pfenninger.

Temperature-dependent generation time data for ectotherm animals was collected from literature and incorporated into population models to predict a number of generations per year under different climatic scenarios. An increase in generations per year implies an increase of evolutionary rate for ectotherms with rising temperatures under stronger climate change scenario.