Gaps in mammalian body size distributions reexamined

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2788-2792

  Siemann, Evan ^a,b   Brown, James H ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Biogeography; Biomes; Body size; Core Taxa Hypothesis; Evolutionary constraints; Gaps; Geographical range; Mammals; North America; Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MAMMAL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033429218     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2788:GIMBSD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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