Delayed phenology and reduced fitness associated with climate change in a wild hibernator

Nature

Volumn 489, Issue 7417, 2012, Pages 554-557

  Lane, Jeffrey E ^a,b,c   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a   Charmantier, Anne ^b   Murie, Jan O ^c   Dobson, F Stephen ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HIBERNATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RODENT; SNOWMELT; VIABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HIBERNATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIDAE; SPRING; WILD ANIMAL;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH; HIBERNATION; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

EID: 84866922768     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11335     Document Type: Article

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