The relationship between abundance and body size in British birds
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Nee et al. (1991) found that in British birds the direction of correlation between body size and abundance flipped back and forth depending on how the data were aggregated.
“This is precisely what Nee et al. (1991) found looking at the relationship between body size and abundance in British birds; depending on how they aggregated the data (means of species, means of genera, means of tribes, etc.) the direction of correlation flipped back and forth.”
From Rethinking phylogenetic comparative methods (2018) · cites this paper as Nee et al. (1991)
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Population Density and Body Size in Birds
Juanes, F. (1986) · The American Naturalist · doi:10.1086/284613 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
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Bar-On, Y. M., Phillips, R., & Milo, R. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1711842115 · Cited by 3,723 · see citing works
“(181), we calculate the average bird wet weight of British birds to be ≈80 g per bird.”
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Uyeda, J. C., Zenil-Ferguson, R., & Pennell, M. W. (2018) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy031 · Cited by 313 · see citing works
- Authors
- Nee, S., Read, A. F., Greenwood, J. J. D., & Harvey, P. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1991-05
- Volume
- 351
- Issue
- 6324
- Pages
- 312-313
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1977103745
- Cited by
- 320
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 19.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Keywords
- body weight, British birds, phylogenetic relatedness, population size estimation, allometry, species abundance
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