Life on the edge: Carnivore body size variation is all over the place

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1661, 2009, Pages 1469-1476

  Meiri, Shai ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^b   Simberloff, Daniel ^c   Grenyer, Richard ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bergmann's rule; Body size; Carnivora; Range edge

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOME RANGE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARNIVORA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION;

EID: 65649131619     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1318     Document Type: Article

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