Browsing Biology, Department of by Subject "Adaptation"
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Fleeing Predation: the Effect of Copper Exposure on Inducible Antipredator Defenses in Daphnia Pulicaria Clones From a Historically Metal Contaminated Lake
(2012-04-05)Antipredator defenses are ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems. In the widely studied Chaoborus-Daphnia predator-prey system, Daphnia elicit a variety of phenotypically plastic responses to Chaoborus including: morphological, ... -
Natural Selection on Phenology Across an Elevational Gradient in Seasonality
Many populations are locally adapted to their environment, but across an environmental gradient, trade-offs among phenotypic traits may result in a failure to adapt. Species exist across a seasonal gradient, which can ...