Potter, SallyXue, Alexander T.Bragg, JasonRosauer, DanRoycroft, Emily J.Moritz, Craig2019-07-100962-1083http://hdl.handle.net/1885/164525Spatial responses of species to past climate change depend on both intrinsic traits (climatic niche breadth, dispersal rates) and the scale of climatic fluctuations across the landscape. New capabilities in generating and analysing population genomic data, along with spatial modelling, have unleashed our capacity to infer how past climate changes have shaped populations, and by extension, complex communities. Combining these approaches, we uncover lineage diversity across four codistributed lizards from the Australian Monsoonal Tropics and explore how varying climatic tolerances interact with regional climate history to generate common vs. disparate responses to late Pleistocene change. We find more divergent spatial structuring and temporal demographic responses in the drier Kimberley region compared to the more mesic and consistently suitable Top End. We hypothesize that, in general, the effects of species' traits on sensitivity to climate fluctuation will be more evident in climatically marginal regions. If true, this points to the need in climatically marginal areas to craft more species-(or trait)-specific strategies for persistence under future climate change.This research was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship awarded to CM (ARC FL110100104) and an ARC DECRA Fellowship to DFR (DE160100035). This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-1343578 to Ana C. Carnaval, Michael J. Hickerson and Kyle C. McDonald; DEB-1253710 to M.J.H.); FAPESP (BIOTA, 2013/50297-0 to A.C.C., M.J.H. and K.C.M.); and NASA through the Dimensions of Biodiversity Program. This work would not have been possible without help from the City University of New York High Performance Computing Center, with support from the National Science Foundation (CNS-0855217 and CNS0958379).application/pdfen-AU© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd201810.1111/mec.144412019-03-31