Community-wide character displacement in New Zealand skinks

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2139-2147

  Montoya, Isabel ^a   Burns, K C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evolutionary ecology; Island biogeography; Lizard; Morphology; New Zealand; Niche partitioning; Null model; Prey size selection

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BODY SIZE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; ISLAND; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PREY SIZE; SIZE EFFECT; SIZE SELECTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 36248952097     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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