The well-temperatured biologist

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 755-768

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b American Society of Naturalists   (United States)

Author keywords

Bach; Body size; Climate change; Physiological adaptation; Temperature; The Well Tempered Clavier

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECTOTHERMY; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; KINETICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; KINETICS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 72449139220     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648310     Document Type: Article

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