Heat stress and the fitness consequences of climate change for terrestrial ectotherms

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1415-1423

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a   Diamond, Sarah E ^b   Buckley, Lauren B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ectotherms; Fitness; Heat stress; Latitudinal gradients; Thermal performance curves

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECTOTHERMY; FITNESS; GROWING SEASON; HYPSITHERMAL; REPTILE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84887820778     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12145     Document Type: Article

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