Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: The problem and the evidence

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Merilä, Juha ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Evolution; Genetics; Global change; Individual plasticity; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891961350     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12137     Document Type: Note

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