Convergence in morphological patterns and community organization between old and new world rodent guilds

American Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 484-495

  Ben Moshe, A ^a   Dayan, T ^a   Simberloff, D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Community structure; Community wide character displacement; Ecomorphology; Guild convergence; Seed size selection

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FOOD SELECTION; GUILD; RODENT; SEED SIZE;

ISRAEL;

GERBILLUS ALLENBYI; GERBILLUS PYRAMIDUM;

EID: 0034783683     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323115     Document Type: Article

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