Seeing the forest for the trees: Partitioning ecological and phylogenetic components of Bergmann's rule in European Carnivora

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 598-608

  Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^a   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel Á ^b   Rangel, Thiago Fernando L V B ^c   Hawkins, Bradford A ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CARNIVORA;

EID: 34547955388     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0906-7590.04988.x     Document Type: Article

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