Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 487-496

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Messier, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscapes; Community ecology; Fitness components; Global change; Intraspecific trait covariation; Multivariate trait distributions; Phenotypic integration; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC FITNESS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84940467363     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.003     Document Type: Review

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