Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: Melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 532-534

  Galeotti, Paolo ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^b   Sacchi, Roberto ^a   Fasola, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Colour polymorphism; Evolutionary response; Melanin based coloration; Morphs

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MELANIN; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLUMAGE; POLYMORPHISM; RAPTOR; SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HABITAT; ITALY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; OTUS; OTUS SCOPS;

EID: 67749147214     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0207     Document Type: Article

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