Testing Bergmann's rule in the presence of potentially confounding factors: A case study with three species of Galerida larks in Morocco

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-591

  Guillaumet, Alban ^a,b   Ferdy, Jean Baptiste ^a   Desmarais, Eric ^a   Godelle, Bernard ^a   Crochet, Pierre André ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Body size; Competition; Confounding factors; Galerida; Hybridization; Morocco; Morphology; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BODY SIZE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; POLYMORPHISM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ALAUDIDAE; GALERIDA; GALERIDA CRISTATA; GALERIDA THEKLAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40749134590     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01826.x     Document Type: Article

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