Is adaptation to climate change really constrained in niche specialists?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1790, 2014, Pages

  van Heerwaarden, Belinda ^a   Sgrò, Carla M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Additive genetic variation; Desiccation; Evolutionary potential; Heritability; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FLY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; NICHE; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SELECTION;

EID: 84904605593     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0396     Document Type: Article

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