Latitudinal trends in body size among over-wintering leaf warblers (genus Phylloscopus)

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-79

  Katti, Madhusudan ^a,b   Price, Trevor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; LATITUDE; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SIZE;

INDIA;

PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILOIDES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038625123     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03264.x     Document Type: Article

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