Non-native species disrupt the worldwide patterns of freshwater fish body size: Implications for Bergmann's rule

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 421-431

  Blanchet, Simon ^a,b   Grenouillet, Gael ^b   Beauchard, Olivier ^c   Tedesco, Pablo A ^d   Leprieur, Fabien ^d   Dürr, Hans H ^e   Busson, Frederic ^d   Oberdorff, Thierry ^d   Brosse, Sébastien ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bergmann's rule; Communities; Ecosystem function; Freshwater ecosystems; Invasion; Invasive species; Latitudinal gradients; Macroecology; Null model; Species extinction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BERGMANN RULE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTINCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ICE COVER; RIVER; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77951741707     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01432.x     Document Type: Article

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