Climate change: Is the dark Soay sheep endangered?

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 826-829

  Maloney, Shane K ^a,b   Fuller, Andrea ^b   Mitchell, Duncan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Colour; Selection; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SHEEP; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 74549165418     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0424     Document Type: Article

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