Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 672-691

  Smith, Felisa A ^a,b   Brown, James H ^a   Haskell, John P ^a   Lyons, S Kathleen ^a   Alroy, John ^a   Charnov, Eric L ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^a   Enquist, Brian J ^a   Ernest, S K Morgan ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Jones, Kate E ^a   Kaufman, Dawn M ^a   Marquet, Pablo A ^a   Maurer, Brian A ^a   Niklas, Karl J ^a   Porter, Warren P ^a   Tiffney, Bruce ^a   Willig, Michael R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Evolution; Heritability; Macroecology; Niche differentiation

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 2642568749     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382898     Document Type: Article

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