The macroevolutionary relationship between diet and body mass across mammals

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 173-184

  Price, Samantha A ^a   Hopkins, Samantha S B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammalia; Omnivory; Ornstein; Phylogenetic comparative analysis; Uhlenbeck model

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MARINE MAMMAL; OMNIVORY; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84926420834     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12495     Document Type: Article

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