Brain versus body mass in endemic ruminant artiodactyls: A case studied of Myotragus balearicus and smallest Candiacervus species from Mediterranean Islands

Quaternary International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 160-183

  Palombo, M R ^a,b   Kohler, M ^c   Moya Sola, S ^c   Giovinazzo, C ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; BRAIN; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LOCOMOTION; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PREDATION; PREDATOR; RUMINANT;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE; MYOTRAGUS; MYOTRAGUS BALEARICUS;

EID: 42949175267     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.037     Document Type: Article

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