Body size-climate relationships of European spiders

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-485

  Entling, Wiebke ^a   Schmidt Entling, Martin H ^a   Bacher, Sven ^b   Brandl, Roland ^c   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Araneae; Bergmann's rule; Europe; Family sorting; Latitude; Moisture; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HABITAT TYPE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROCLIMATE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPIDER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EUROPE;

ARANEAE; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 75149118179     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02216.x     Document Type: Article

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