Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 689-700

  Itescu, Yuval ^a   Karraker, Nancy E ^b   Raia, Pasquale ^c   Pritchard, Peter C H ^d   Meiri, Shai ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Chelonian Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Ecological release; Evolution; Founder effects; Island rule; Islands; Reduced major axis regression; Size frequency distributions; Testudines

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PHYLOGENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TURTLE;

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84898539091     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12149     Document Type: Article

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