Global change and carnivore body size: Data are stasis

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-247

  Meiri, Shai ^a   Guy, Dorit ^b   Dayan, Tamar ^b   Simberloff, Daniel ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Body size evolution; Carnivora; Evolutionary rates; Global change; Global warming; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BERGMANN RULE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

CARNIVORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 60149099808     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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