High fitness costs of climate change-induced camouflage mismatch

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 299-307

  Zimova, Marketa ^a   Mills, L Scott ^a   Nowak, J Joshua ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Climate change; Evolutionary adaptation; Evolutionary rescue; Fitness; Molt phenology; Natural selection; Phenological mismatch; Snow cover; Snowshoe hare

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOR MORPH; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; INDUCED RESPONSE; LAGOMORPH; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MOLT; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOLOGY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SNOW COVER; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; LEPUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS;

SNOW;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; HARE; LONGEVITY; MOLTING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CHAIN; HARES; LONGEVITY; MOLTING; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SEASONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SNOW;

EID: 84969391806     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12568     Document Type: Article

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