The demographic impacts of shifts in climate means and extremes on alpine butterflies

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 969-977

  Buckley, Lauren B ^a   Kingsolver, Joel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical model; Climate change; Colias; Egg viability; Elevation gradient; Flight activity time; Local adaptation; Phenotype; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOPHYSICS; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ELEVATION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VIABILITY;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

COLIAS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84864011932     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01969.x     Document Type: Article

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