Adaptation to climate change: Contrasting patterns of thermal-reaction-norm evolution in Pacific versus Atlantic silversides

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1716, 2011, Pages 2265-2273

  Baumann, Hannes ^a   Conover, David O ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion efficiency; Countergradient variation; Growth capacity; Latitudinal gradients; Seasonality; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COASTAL ZONE; ECTOTHERMY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; SEASONALITY; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA];

ARGENTINA ELONGATA; ATHERINOPS AFFINIS; MENIDIA; MENIDIA MENIDIA;

EID: 79959713129     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2479     Document Type: Article

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