Testing mechanisms of bergmann's rule: Phenotypic decline but no genetic change in body size in three passerine bird populations

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-213

  Husby, Arild ^a,b   Hille, Sabine M ^c   Visser, Marcel E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Climate change; Heritability; Microevolution; Parus major; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BERGMANN RULE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79960282716     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660834     Document Type: Article

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