The covariance between genetic and environmental influences across ecological gradients: Reassessing the evolutionary significance of countergradient and cogradient variation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1168, Issue , 2009, Pages 100-129

  Conover, David O ^a   Duffy, Tara A ^a   Hice, Lyndie A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bergmann's rule; Clines; Cogradient variation; Conservation biology; Countergradient variation; Covariance; Genetic compensation; Growth rate evolution; Phenotypic plasticity; Species range

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AMPHIBIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVARIANCE; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FISH; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; LATITUDE; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; WILD SPECIES;

AMPHIBIA; HEXAPODA; PISCES;

EID: 67649668675     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04575.x     Document Type: Review

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