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Survival of the fittest

Nature Climate Change volume 5, pages 102–103 (2015)Cite this article

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Evolutionary adaptation will help some animals cope with future climate change, but for juvenile salmon there may be limits to how far the thermal tolerance of cardiac function can adapt.

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  1. Philip Munday is in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia,

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