Variation in Cepaea populations over 42 years: Climate fluctuations destroy a topographical relationship of morph-frequencies

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-61

  Cameron, Robert A D ^a,b   Pokryszko, Beata M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Climatic selection; Polymorphism; Temperature inversions

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GASTROPOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORPHOLOGY; PIGMENT; POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SHELL; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TOPOGRAPHY; VALLEY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HERTFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CEPAEA; CEPAEA HORTENSIS; GASTROPODA; PULMONATA;

EID: 52649162860     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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