Corals' adaptive response to climate change
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Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals
The unprecedented rate of environmental change that characterizes the Anthropocene1 has raised concerns over whether the pace of organismal adaptation will be sufficient to mitigate projected detrimental effects on populations, communities and ecosystems2. The appearance and fixation of new adaptive genetic mutations generally requires many generations, suggesting that only organisms with short...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/430741a