The fast life of a dwarfed giant

By Pasquale Raia, C. Barbera, M. Conte. Evolutionary Ecology, 2003

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Dinosaurs and the island rule: The dwarfed dinosaurs from Haţeg Island (2010, background): “3) on Sicily, Raia et al. (2003) argued for paedomorphosis by progenesis.”
Size evolution in island lizards (2007, unknown): “Character release can also enable large animals to become smaller to achieve greater reproductive success (Raia et al. , 2003).”
Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk (2009, background): “The result is earlier maturation, smaller body size, and production of relatively high numbers of low-quality offspring (Raia et al. 2003; Raia and Meiri 2006).”
Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands (2011, background): “Studies of size extremes are usually conducted at the inter-specific level (Glaw et al., 2006; Hedges, 2008), and often deal with extinct taxa (Kurten, 1953; Sondaar, 1977; Steadman et al., 2002; Raia et al., 2003).”
Of mice and mammoths: generality and antiquity of the island rule (2013, background): “…can be inappropriate and less accurate than ordinary least squares regressions even when independent variables have a strong phylogenetic signal (Revell, 2010) or when the rate of anagenetic variation exceeds that of cladogenesis (see Ricklefs & Starck, 1996; Bj€orklund, 1997; Losos, 2003,…”