Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: Can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1610, 2013, Pages

  Gienapp, Phillip ^a   Lof, Marjolein ^a   Reed, Thomas E ^a   McNamara, John ^b   Verhulst, Simon ^c   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Environmental change; Evolutionary rescue; Great tit; Model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

PARUS MAJOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEASON; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876512481     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0289     Document Type: Article

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