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The mean and variance of climate change in the oceans: hidden evolutionary potential under stochastic environmental variability in marine sticklebacks
Description: Increasing climate variability may pose an even greater risk to species than climate warming because temperature fluctuations can amplify adverse impacts of directional warming on fitness-related traits. Here, the influence of directional warming and increasing climate variability on marine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) offspring size variation was investigated by simulating changes to the mean and variance of ocean temperatures predicted under climate change. [Source: Scientific Reports]
URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07140-9
Availability: Summary
Source: Scientific Reports
Publish Date: 8/21/2017
Reading Level: Expert
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