Article
Climate variability slows evolutionary responses of Colias butterflies to recent climate change.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Mar 2015
Kingsolver Joel G, Buckley Lauren B
Abstract excerpt
How does recent climate warming and climate variability alter fitness, phenotypic selection and evolution in natural populations? We combine biophysical, demographic and evolutionary models with recent climate data to address this question for the subalpine and alpine butterfly, Colias meadii, in the southern Rocky Mountains. We focus on predicting patterns of selection and evolution for a key thermoregulatory...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Butterflies
- Colorado
- Ecosystem
- Global Warming
- Melanins
- Phenotype
- Seasons
- Temperature
- Wings, Animal