Sustainability | |
Extinction or Survival? Behavioral Flexibility in Response to Environmental Change in the African Striped Mouse |
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Tasmin L. Rymer1  Neville Pillay1  | |
[1] School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa; E-Mail: | |
关键词:
adaptation;
anthropogenic impact;
behavioral flexibility;
climate change;
intra-specific variation in social organization;
phenotypic flexibility;
phenotypic plasticity;
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DOI : 10.3390/su5010163 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
The rapid rate of anthropogenic-related climate change is expected to severely impact ecosystems and their constituent organisms, leading to mass extinction. A rapid adaptive response of animals to such change could be due to reversible phenotypic flexibility, including behavioral flexibility. Our model, the African striped mouse
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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