What Can Plasticity Contribute to Insect Responses to Climate Change?

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 433-451

  Sgrò, Carla M ^a   Terblanche, John S ^b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Climate change; Cross generation; Flexibility; Hardening; Stress; Transgeneration; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INSECT; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; INSECTS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84961801026     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023859     Document Type: Review

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