Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability

Biological Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 22-42

  Vázquez, Diego P ^a,b   Gianoli, Ernesto ^c,d   Morris, William F ^e   Bozinovic, Francisco ^f  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Avenida Vicuña Mackenna   (Chile)

Author keywords

climate change; community structure; demography; fitness; geographic range limits; phenological mismatches; phenotypic plasticity; physiological traits; population dynamics; species interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84939634030     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12216     Document Type: Article

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