Insect thermal baggage

Caroline Williams ()
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Caroline Williams: UC Berkeley

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 6, 543-544

Abstract: Strong positive selection on cold hardiness and relaxed selection on heat hardiness experienced by range-expanding populations may help to explain why ectothermic animals generally have broader thermal tolerance towards the poles, and shed new light on their climate vulnerabilities.

Date: 2016
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