Does Structural Complexity Determine the Morphology of Assemblages? An Experimental Test on Three Continents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gibb, Heloise ^a,b   Parr, Catherine L ^c,d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAUNA; FEMUR; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS; LEG LENGTH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; APPETITE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84877850307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064005     Document Type: Article

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