It's about time: The temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection in the wild

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1261-1276

  Siepielski, Adam M ^a   Dibattista, Joseph D ^b   Carlson, Stephanie M ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate; Demography; Divergence; Environmental variation; Evolution; Natural selection; Sexual selection; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; TIME;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70350043770     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01381.x     Document Type: Review

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