Quantifying thermal extremes and biological variation to predict evolutionary responses to changing climate

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1723, 2017, Pages

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a   Buckley, Lauren B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme value distribution; Phenotype; Selection; Thermal performance curve; Thermal tolerance; Time scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTOLERANCE;

EID: 85019123869     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0147     Document Type: Review

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