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‘On being the right size’ – Do aliens follow the rules?

2018-03-01

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AIM: To assess whether mammalian species introduced onto islands across the globe have evolved to exhibit body size patterns consistent with the ‘island rule,’, and to test an ecological explanation for body size evolution of insular mammals. LOCATION: Islands worldwide. METHODS: We assembled data on body mass, geographical characteristics (latitude, maximum elevation) and ecological communities (number of mammali...

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Literature Corpus work: 56b2a1a2-9ea3-5c98-8348-0fbbb0034e20
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13159

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