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Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales

2009-12-01

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One of the longest recognized patterns in macroecology, Bergmann's rule, describes the tendency for homeothermic animals to have larger body sizes in cooler climates than their phylogenetic relatives in warmer climates. Here we provide an integrative process-based explanation for Bergmann's rule at the global scale for the mammal order Carnivora. Global. Our database comprises the body sizes of 209 species of exta...

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Literature Corpus work: 04086ecc-75c7-54dd-8214-10fb5caea4c0
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02163.x

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