Keeping pace with fast climate change: Can Arctic life count on evolution?

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 140-151

  Berteaux, Dominique ^a   Réale, Denis ^b   McAdam, Andrew G ^c   Boutin, Stan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 4243055909     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.2.140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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