On size and area: Patterns of mammalian body size extremes across landmasses

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-139

  Marquet, Pablo A ^a   Taper, Mark L ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Islands; Macroecology; Mammals; Population density; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031881574     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006567227154     Document Type: Article

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