The evolution of large-scale body size clines in Plethodon salamanders: Evidence of heat-balance or species-specific artifact?

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1067-1075

  Adams, Dean C ^a,b   Church, James O ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARTIFACT; BODY SIZE; CLINE; DATA SET; EIGENVALUE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEAT BALANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACROECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

PLETHODON; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 79959304976     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06911.x     Document Type: Article

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