Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: Roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1596, 2012, Pages 1665-1679

  Huey, Raymond B ^a   Kearney, Michael R ^b   Krockenberger, Andrew ^c   Holtum, Joseph A M ^c   Jess, Mellissa ^d   Williams, Stephen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Reef and Rainforest Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ectotherms; Endotherms; Temperature; Thermoregulation; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA SET; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84860682778     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0005     Document Type: Article

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