Adult body size = f (initial size + growth rate × age): Explaining the proximate cause of Bergman's cline in a toad along altitudinal gradients

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 579-590

  Liao, Wenbo ^a   Lu, Xin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Altitude; Bergmann's rule; Body size; Bufo andrewsi; Egg size; Growth rate; Life history; Metamorphic size

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECTOTHERMY; EGG SIZE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAMORPHOSIS; PREDATION RISK; TOAD;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO ANDREWSI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859568299     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9501-y     Document Type: Article

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