Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales
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2009
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Diniz-Filho, Jose Alexandre Felizola
Rodriguez, Miguel Angel
Bini, Luis Mauricio
Olalla-Tarraga, Miguel Angel
Cardillo, Marcel
Nabout, Joao Carlos
Hortal, Joaquin
Hawkins, Bradford A.
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Aim 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
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Keywords: anthropogenic effect; biogeography; body size; carnivore; colonization; eigenvalue; glacial-interglacial cycle; interspecific variation; macroecology; paleoclimate; phylogenetics; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Animalia; Carnivora; Eutheria; Mammalia Anthropogenic effects; Bergmann's rule; Body size; Carnivora; Climate; Cope's rule; Human footprint; Phylogenetic effects; Phylogenetic eigenvector regression
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Journal of Biogeography
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