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Bergmann’s Rule in Ectotherms: A Test Using Freshwater Fishes
Abstract
Understanding patterns of variation in body size within and among species is a central question in evolutionary ecology (Schlichting and Pigliucci 1998). The most well known pattern of variation in body size is Bergmann's rule (Bergmann 1847; Mayr 1956). The intraspecific version of Bergmann's rule holds that within endothermic species, body size increases with increasing latitude (or decreasing temperature; Blackburn et al. 1999; Ashton et al. 2000). In general, mammals conform to this rule (Ashton et al. 2000).
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- Authors
- Belk, M. C., & Houston, D. D.
- Venue
- The American Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2002-12
- Volume
- 160
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 803-808
- ISSN
- 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5323
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- W2139598998
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- 198
- References
- 1
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- 4.87
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- en
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- closed
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