Keeping Pace with Fast Climate Change: Can Arctic Life Count on Evolution?
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Keeping pace with fast climate change: can arctic life count on evolution?
Adaptations to the cold and to short growing seasons characterize arctic life, but climate in the Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate. Will plant and animal populations of the Arctic be able to cope with these drastic changes in environmental conditions? Here we explore the potential contribution of evolution by natural selection to the current response of populations to climate change. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.2.140