Evolution, ecology, and multimodal distributions of body size

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 705-711

  Cumming, Graeme S ^a,b   Havlicek, Tanya D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Community ecology; Fish; Lump; Scaling; Textural discontinuity

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISCONTINUITY; EVOLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036865465     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0118-4     Document Type: Article

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