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The dynamics of phenotypic change and the shrinking sheep of St. Kilda.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 24 Jul 2009
Ozgul Arpat, Tuljapurkar Shripad, Benton Tim G, Pemberton Josephine M, Clutton-Brock Tim H, Coulson Tim
Abstract excerpt
Environmental change, including climate change, can cause rapid phenotypic change via both ecological and evolutionary processes. Because ecological and evolutionary dynamics are intimately linked, a major challenge is to identify their relative roles. We exactly decomposed the change in mean body weight in a free-living population of Soay sheep into all the processes that contribute to change. Ecological...
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