Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

By Shai Meiri, T. Dayan, Daniel Simberloff. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “Meiri et al. (2004) conclude that the relationship between latitude and size for the bobcat (Lynx rufus) is not significant, but they cite other studies of the bobcat, which have larger sample sizes, that indicate Bergmann’s rule holds for this species (Sikes and Kennedy 1992, Wigginton and Dobson…”
Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “…rule’ has variously been tested using intraspecific (e.g. Ashton et al., 2000; Ashton, 2002; Ashton & Feldman, 2003; Blanckenhorn & Demont, 2004; Meiri et al., 2004a; Blanckenhorn et al., 2006), interspecific (Freckleton et al., 2003; Katti & Price, 2003; Cruz et al., 2005) and assemblage…”
Subterranean rodents of the genus Ctenomys (Caviomorpha, Ctenomyidae) follow the converse to Bergmann's rule (2007, methodology): “Since most of the variables tested departed from normality even after log transformation, Spearman’s correlation coefficients were calculated (Meiri et al., 2004).”
Bergmann's rule and the geography of mammal body size in the Western Hemisphere (2008, background): “Intraspecific patterns have received the most attention (Ray, 1960; Lindsey, 1966; Ashton et al ., 2000; Meiri & Dayan, 2003; Meiri et al ., 2004 ), although interspecific gradients have also been studied, especially for endotherms (mammals: Zeveloff & Boyce, 1988; Cotgreave & Stockley, 1994; Black”
What determines conformity to Bergmann's rule? (2007, background): “While this relationship may seem trivial (Meiri & Dayan, 2003; Meiri et al ., 2004a), it has never been explicitly quantified.”
The geography of body size - challenges of the interspecific approach (2007, background): “Attempts to find which species tend to show size clines, however, have found only weak and idiosyncratic correlates for this tendency (e.g. Ashton, 2004, Meiri et al. , 2004, 2007).”
Variability and correlations in carnivore crania and dentition (2005, background): “Geographical variation in size is manifest in both the smallest and the largest carnivores (Meiri et al. 2004a,b), and we believe other sources of variance are unlikely to affect our results systematically with respect to size, diet or phylogenetic affinity.”
Conformation to Bergmann's Rule in White-tailed Deer can be Explained by Food Availability (2009, background): “There are numerous examples in which Bergmann’s rule appears to hold and 1 e-mail:wolverton@unt.edu 403 others in which it does not (see summary in Meiri et al., 2004).”
The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns (2006, background): “…et al., 1998), as well as other studies confirming the generality of these patterns (in mammals: Ashton et al., 2000; Meiri & Dayan, 2003; Meiri et al., 2004b; in birds: Ashton, 2002a; Meiri & Dayan, 2003; in salamanders: Ashton, 2002b; in turtles: Ashton & Feldman, 2003; and in…”
Bergmann's rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern (2013, unknown): “…the decision on whether Bergmann ’ s rule applied or not is thus usually based on the number of species in which the pattern can be demonstrated intra-speciﬁ cally (James 1970, Ashton et al. 2000, Ashton 2002, Meiri and Dayan 2003, de Queiroz and Ashton 2004, Meiri et al. 2004, Watt et al. 2010).”