Amphibians do not follow Bergmann's rule

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 413-420

  Adams, Dean C ^a,b   Church, James O ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Body size; Kernel density estimation; Meta analysis; Plethodon; Thermal clines

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; CLINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECTOTHERMY; LIFE HISTORY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; META-ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TESTING METHOD;

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; URODELA;

AMPHIBIA; CAUDATA; PLETHODON; SALAMANDROIDEA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 39749113143     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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