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Temperature heterogeneity correlates with intraspecific variation in physiological flexibility in a small endotherm.
Nature communications - 20 Jul 2021
Stager Maria, Senner Nathan R, Swanson David L, Carling Matthew D, Eddy Douglas K, Greives Timothy J, Cheviron Zachary A
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic flexibility allows individuals to reversibly modify trait values and theory predicts an individual's relative degree of flexibility positively correlates with the environmental heterogeneity it experiences. We test this prediction by integrating surveys of population genetic and physiological variation with thermal acclimation experiments and indices of environmental heterogeneity in the Dark-eyed...
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