Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 19679-19684

  Okie, Jordan G ^a   Brown, James H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Assembly rules; Extinction; Habitat fragmentation; Nested subsets

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; HABITAT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 73949093638     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901654106     Document Type: Article

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