Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 783-797

  Maurer, Brian A ^a,b   Brown, James H ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^a   Enquist, Brian J ^a   Ernest, S K Morgan ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Haskell, John P ^a   Jablonski, David ^a   Jones, Kate E ^a   Kaufman, Dawn M ^a   Lyons, S Kathleen ^a   Niklas, Karl J ^a   Porter, Warren P ^a   Roy, Kaustuv ^a   Smith, Felisa A ^a   Tiffney, Bruce ^a   Willig, Michael R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Bats; Diversification of body size; Functional symmetry; Hummingbirds; Insectivores; Mammalia; Perching birds; Phylogenetic symmetry; Rodents; Swifts

Indexed keywords

APODIFORMES; AVES; CHIROPTERA; INSECTIVORA; MAMMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; RODENTIA; TROCHILIDAE; TROCHILIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4744340122     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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