The evolution of placental mammal body sizes: Evolutionary history, form, and function

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-27

  Lovegrove, Barry G ^a   Haines, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Body size distribution; Mammals; Predation; Running speed

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; RUNNING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; MAMMALS; MORTALITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; RUNNING;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; NEARCTIC;

EID: 0842331947     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1376-3     Document Type: Article

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