Habitat primary production and the evolution of body size within the hartebeest clade

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 431-440

  Capellini, Isabella ^a,b   Gosling, Leonard Morris ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcelaphus; Antelopes; Body size; Bovidae; Geographical variation; Intraspecific variation; Local adaptation; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RUMINANT; SAVANNA; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

ALCELAPHUS; ALCELAPHUS BUSELAPHUS; BOVIDAE; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 35448937262     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00883.x     Document Type: Article

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