Minimizing energy expenditure facilitates vertebrate persistence on oceanic islands

By B. McNab. 2002

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Making overall dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure (2011, background): “(McNab 2002) and behavioural strategies (Hinch & Rand”
The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns (2006, background): “For example, some studies (Meiri et al., 2004a, 2006) question the generality of Foster’s (1963, 1964) island rule, which describes body-size trends in insular vertebrates; while others have confirmed it for a diversity of taxa, ecosystems and geographical regions ( McNab, 2001, 2002; Anderson & Ha”
Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule (2005, background): “1) (Lomolino, 1985; Gordon, 1986; Hilderbrand et al., 1999; McNab, 2002).”
Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands (2011, background): “…explanation for insular gigantism in birds and reptiles (e.g. elephant birds, moas, Komodo dragons and the giant skinks of Cape Verde and New Caledonia) is that they have evolved large size on islands with no mammalian competitors or predators (Russell, 1877; Case, 1978; McNab, 2002; Meiri, 2008).”