New macroecological insights into functional constraints on mammalian geographical range size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1758, 2013, Pages

  Agosta, Salvatore J ^a   Bernardo, Joseph ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Distributions; Energetics; Extinction risk; Home range size; Null model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84878163453     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0140     Document Type: Article

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