Climate change and mammals: Evolutionary versus plastic responses

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-41

  Boutin, Stan ^a   Lane, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Contemporary evolution; Ecological genetics; Natural selection; Phenotypic plasticity; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891935221     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12121     Document Type: Review

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