Are there species smaller than 1 mm?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1767, 2013, Pages

  Rossberg, Axel G ^a,b   Rogers, Tim ^c   Mckane, Alan J ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Competition; Ecological species concept; Individualbased models; Lineages throughtime plots

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; MEIOFAUNA; MUTATION; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84896059721     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1248     Document Type: Article

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