New theory of insular evolution: Unifying the loss of dispersability and body-mass change

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 115-124

  Filin, Ido ^a   Ziv, Yaron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allometry; Dispersability; Dwarfism; Gigantism; Insular evolution; Island size; Optimal body mass

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442297638     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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