Adaptation to host plants may prevent rapid insect responses to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2923-2929

  Pelini, Shannon L ^a,d   Keppel, Jessica A ^a,b   Kelley, Ann E ^a,c   Hellmann, Jessica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographic mosaic; Local adaptation; Plant insect interactions; Range shifts; Resource specialization

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; GENOTYPE; HOST PLANT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORTALITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ERYNNIS; HEXAPODA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA; QUERCUS GARRYANA; QUERCUS KELLOGGII;

EID: 77957311459     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02177.x     Document Type: Article

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