The life histories of orders of mammals: Fast and slow breeding

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 862-865

  Stephen Dobson, F ^a   Oli, Madan K ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Life histories; Mammalian orders; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; LEPORIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 55549140158     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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