One size does not fit all: No evidence for an optimal body size on islands

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-484

  Raia, Pasquale ^a,b   Carotenuto, Francesco ^a   Meiri, Shai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Center for Evolutionary Ecology   (Italy)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body size evolution; Brownian motion model; Island rule; Mammalian phylogenetic tree; Optimal body size theory; Phylogenetic dispersion

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BROWNIAN MOTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954804325     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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