Bergmann′s rule in mammals: A cross-species interspecific pattern

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1465-1472

  Clauss, Marcus ^a   Dittmann, Marie T ^e   Müller, Dennis W H ^a,b   Meloro, Carlo ^f   Codron, Daryl ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b National Park 'Bavarian Forest'   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERGMANN RULE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DATA SET; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LATITUDE; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84890856572     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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