Partitioning phylogenetic and adaptive components of the geographical body-size pattern of New World birds

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-110

  Ramirez, Lizabeth ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^b   Hawkins, Bradford A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Body size; Climatic gradients; Macroecology; New World birds; Phylogenetic eigenvector regression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BERGMANN RULE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MODELING; PHYLOGENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 36849048874     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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