Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ...
Species that seasonally moult from brown to white to match snowy backgrounds become conspicuous and experience increased predation risk as snow cover duration declines. Long-term adaptation to camouflage mismatch in a changing climate might occur through phenotypic plasticity in colour moult phenolo...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w3n 2024-02-04T09:57:46+01:00 Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... Zimova, Marketa Moberg, Dick 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w3n https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w3n en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0334 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 FOS Biological sciences Dataset dataset 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w3n10.1098/rsbl.2022.0334 2024-01-05T04:51:50Z Species that seasonally moult from brown to white to match snowy backgrounds become conspicuous and experience increased predation risk as snow cover duration declines. Long-term adaptation to camouflage mismatch in a changing climate might occur through phenotypic plasticity in colour moult phenology and or evolutionary shifts in moult rate or timing. Also, adaptation may include evolutionary shifts towards winter brown phenotypes that forgo the winter white moult. Most studies of these processes have occurred in winter white populations, with little attention to polymorphic populations with sympatric winter brown and winter white morphs. Here, we used remote camera traps to record moult phenology and mismatch in two polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes in Sweden over 2 years. We found that the colder, more northern population moulted earlier in the fall and later in the spring. Next, foxes moulted earlier in the fall and later in the spring during colder and snowier years. Finally, white foxes ... Dataset Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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Species that seasonally moult from brown to white to match snowy backgrounds become conspicuous and experience increased predation risk as snow cover duration declines. Long-term adaptation to camouflage mismatch in a changing climate might occur through phenotypic plasticity in colour moult phenology and or evolutionary shifts in moult rate or timing. Also, adaptation may include evolutionary shifts towards winter brown phenotypes that forgo the winter white moult. Most studies of these processes have occurred in winter white populations, with little attention to polymorphic populations with sympatric winter brown and winter white morphs. Here, we used remote camera traps to record moult phenology and mismatch in two polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes in Sweden over 2 years. We found that the colder, more northern population moulted earlier in the fall and later in the spring. Next, foxes moulted earlier in the fall and later in the spring during colder and snowier years. Finally, white foxes ... |
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Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... |
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Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... |
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Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... |
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Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... |
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Colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of Arctic foxes ... |
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colour moult phenology and camouflage mismatch in polymorphic populations of arctic foxes ... |
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