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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Bergmann's rule"”.
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Evolutionary and Ecological Patterns of Body Size in North American Freshwater Fishes
… factors influencing these patterns. Cope's rule, Bergmann's rule, the energetic equivalence rule, and character displacement are examined using historical and field-collected data on North American freshwater fishes. Results from within family analyses of evolutionary trends in body size …
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Documentation of Missouri white-tailed deer chronoclines : implications for archaeology, paleoecology, and conservation biology
Multiple ecological factors (e.g., Bergmann's rule, competition, food quality and quantity) can be responsible for changes in animal body size over time. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) serve as an ideal candidate for studying these variables due to their importance today (to hunters and …
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The community ecology of a riverine turtle assemblage in the Tennessee River Gorge
… sizes for turtles increase with latitude, or Bergmann's rule. The SDI values from the TRG turtles were not as substantial as those reported from other localities, primarily due to the relatively greater body sizes achieved by male turtles in the TRG. Generally, larger body sizes and observed …
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Morphological, Genetic, and Ecological Insights into the Puerto Rican Tody: Investigating Variation Between and Within Dry Forest and Rainforest Populations
… rising temperatures, consistent with Allen's rule, which predicts larger appendages in warmer climates to enhance heat dissipation. In contrast, tarsus length remained unchanged. When examining overall body size, body mass did not decline as expected under Bergmann's rule, contrasting …
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Paleoclimate and mammal paleocology during the paleocene of North America: insights from stable isotopes.
Paleocene climate and its relationship to mammal ecology and biogeography were examined at continental scale to test for long-term stasis of ecogeographical patterns among mammals and to better understand the effects of climate change on mammalian faunal dynamics. I also investigated local …
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Bee diversity in Angola and community change along an altitudinal gradient at Serra da Chela (Bruco)
… to my best knowledge, the first demonstration of Bergmann's rule applicability at different levels of biotic organization of bee communities in the tropical region. Effective conservation planning is highly dependent on robust, spatially explicit biodiversity data. The generation of comprehensive …