Functional morphology meets macroecology: Size and shape distributions of New World bats

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 837-851

  Stevens, Richard D ^a,b  

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

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size distribution; Functional morphology; Morphometrics; Principal components analysis; Shape distribution; Size shape decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444532929     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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