Are most species small? Not within species-level phylogenies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1497, 2002, Pages 1279-1287

  Orme, C David L ^a   Isaac, Nick J B ^a   Purvis, Andy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size; Diversity; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; META-ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VERTEBRATES; ANIMALS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037157462     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2003     Document Type: Article

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