Evolution of plasticity in the city: urban acorn ants can better tolerate more rapid increases in environmental temperature

Cities often warm at faster rates during the day and across space. The mechanisms underlying how organisms respond to these climatic changes in cities are largely unknown. This study finds evidence that the heat tolerance of an acorn-dwelling ant species has evolved rapidly to cope with these faster rates of urban warming.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Conservation Physiology

• Publication date

  2018-06-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/conphys/coy030PMID 29977563PMCID 6007456
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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