Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: Evolutionary versus plastic changes

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-67

  Schilthuizen, Menno ^a,b,c   Kellermann, Vanessa ^d  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Drosophila; Insects; Land snails; Phenotypic plasticity; Temperature stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891933745     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12116     Document Type: Article

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