Complex life cycles and the responses of insects to climate change

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 719-732

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a   Arthur Woods, H ^b   Buckley, Lauren B ^a   Potter, Kristen A ^b   MacLean, Heidi J ^a   Higgins, Jessica K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEPIDOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; ZYGOTE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MANDUCA; MICROCLIMATE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZYGOTE;

COLIAS; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA;

EID: 80054880923     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr015     Document Type: Article

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