Colour polymorphism influences species' range and extinction risk.
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SUBMITTER: Takahashi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6685000 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
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Colour polymorphism influences species' range and extinction risk.
Takahashi Yuma Y Noriyuki Suzuki S
Biology letters 20190724 7
Polymorphisms in a population are expected to increase the growth rate and the stability of the population, leading to the expansion of geographical distribution and mitigation of extinction risk of a species. However, the generality of such ecological consequences of colour polymorphism remains uncertain. Here, via a comparative approach, we assessed whether colour polymorphisms influence climatic niche breadth and extinction risk in some groups of damselflies, butterflies and vertebrates. The ...[more]
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