A cross-seasonal perspective on local adaptation: Metabolic plasticity mediates responses to winter in a thermal-generalist moth

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 549-561

  Williams, Caroline M ^a   Chick, Wesley D ^b   Sinclair, Brent J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Climate change; Energy drain; Fitness; Insect; Lepidoptera; Metabolic rate; Overwintering; Temperature compensation; Trade off

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROSS SECTION; ECTOTHERMY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWING SEASON; LOCAL ADAPTATION; METABOLISM; MOTH; OVERWINTERING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

ARCTIIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYPHANTRIA CUNEA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84927746387     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12360     Document Type: Article

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