Recent increase in body size of the American marten Martes americana in Alaska

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 701-707

  Yom Tov, Yoram ^a   Yom Tov, Shlomith ^a   Jarrell, Gordon ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Food availability; Global warming; Skull size

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENERGETICS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL WARMING; MUSTELID; SKULL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MARTES AMERICANA;

EID: 40749151893     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00950.x     Document Type: Article

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