Bergmann's rule; A concept cluster?

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-100

  Watt, Cortney ^a   Mitchell, Sean ^a   Salewski, Volker ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERGMANN RULE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; VERTEBRATE;

GERMANY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72949094003     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17959.x     Document Type: Article

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