What is it about?
This study tests the applicability of the “resource availability hypothesis” in rodents, which predicts larger rodent body size in more productive habitats.
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Why is it important?
Body size is an important trait in animals and is often associated with a lot of other ecological traits, such as diet. The cause of geographic variation in body size has been a fundamental question in much ecological and evolutionary research.
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This paper shows how the results of different approaches could be different, such as cross-species and cross-assemblages.
Bader H Alhajeri
Kuwait University
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This page is a summary of: Habitat productivity is a poor predictor of body size in rodents, Current Zoology, July 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz037.
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