Effects of body mass, climate, geography, and census area on population density of terrestrial mammals

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 469-485

  Silva, Marina ^a   Brimacombe, Michael ^b   Downing, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass distribution; Census area; Climate; Latitude; Macroecology; Mass density relationship; Precipitation; Temperature; Terrestrial mammals

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CENSUS; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034832030     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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