Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary history of insect body size

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 10927-10930

  Clapham, Matthew E ^a   Karr, Jered A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Paleoecology; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; INSECT; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PALEONTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WING;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84863559508     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204026109     Document Type: Article

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