Relationships between abiotic variables and geographic variation in skulls of pumas (Puma concolor: Mammalia, Felidae) in North and South America

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-282

  Gay, Samantha W ^a   Best, Troy L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Carnivore; Ecology; Morphology

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 0030305799     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1996.0039     Document Type: Article

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