Snowshoe hares display limited phenotypic plasticity to mismatch in seasonal camouflage
Markéta Zímová; L. Scott Mills; Paul M. Lukacs; Michael S. Mitchell · 2014 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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As duration of snow cover decreases owing to climate change, species undergoing seasonal colour moults can become colour mismatched with their background. The immediate adaptive solution to this mismatch is phenotypic plasticity, either in…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1098/rspb.2014.0029