Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of a herbivorous insect under climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 244-248

  Van Asch, Margriet ^a   Salis, Lucia ^a,b   Holleman, Leonard J M ^a   Van Lith, Bart ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EGG; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HATCHING DATE; HERBIVORE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOTH; PHENOLOGY; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84874643524     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1717     Document Type: Article

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