Carried over: Heat stress in the egg stage reduces subsequent performance in a butterfly.

Increasing heat stress caused by anthropogenic climate change may pose a substantial challenge to biodiversity due to associated detrimental effects on survival and reproduction. Therefore, heat tolerance has recently received substantial attention, but its variation throughout ontogeny and effects...

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Main Authors: Michael Klockmann, Friederike Kleinschmidt, Klaus Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5510857?pdf=render