Rabbits and Bergmann’s rule: how cold was Portugal during the last glaciation?
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DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz098
Abstract: Osteometric data from > 450 modern wild rabbits, mostly from Portugal, Spain and France, show an inverse correlation between their size and the temperature of the environment, in accordance with Bergmann’s rule. Similar measurements made… read more here.
Keywords: rabbits bergmann; rabbit; temperature; bergmann rule ... See more keywords
Anthropogenic impacts weaken Bergmann's rule
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DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02287
Abstract: 0 and 40 degrees; adjusted R2 0.76, p 2 10–16 for northern latitudes between 0 and 60 degrees; Supplementary material Appendix 1, Fig. A3). These differences lead to weakening of the expected… read more here.
Keywords: material appendix; supplementary material; bergmann rule; contemporary ranges ... See more keywords
Big in the tropics: Ecogeographical clines in peccary size reveal the converse of Bergmann’s rule
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DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14073
Abstract: Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that describes a negative relationship between body size and temperature. Here, we used a multivariate measure of skull size (centroid size) as a proxy for body size to test… read more here.
Keywords: size; rule; big tropics; tropics ecogeographical ... See more keywords
How foraging allometries and resource dynamics could explain Bergmann's rule and the body-size diet relationship in mammals
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DOI: 10.1111/oik.03468
Abstract: Two dramatic large scale patterns characterize body size in mammalian herbivores. One is Bergmann's rule that notes that mammals tend to increase in body size at higher latitudes. The other is the inverse relationship between… read more here.
Keywords: food; bergmann rule; body size; body ... See more keywords
Bergmann’s Rule under Rocks: Testing the Influence of Latitude and Temperature on a Chiton from Mexican Marine Ecoregions
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DOI: 10.3390/biology12060766
Abstract: Bergmann’s rule relates the trend of increasing body size with higher latitudes, where colder climates are found. In the Mexican Pacific, three marine ecoregions are distinguishable across a latitudinal gradient. Stenoplax limaciformis is an abundant… read more here.
Keywords: bergmann rule; temperature; rule; marine ecoregions ... See more keywords