Bergmann's rule and the mammal fauna of northern North America

By T. Blackburn, B. Hawkins. 2004

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “This problem persists regardless of whether a species is analyzed on the basis of the centroid of its range or its presence in each grid cell or region encompassed by its range (e.g., Blackburn et al. 1999, Blackburn and Hawkins 2004).”
Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical traits? (2008, background): “Bergmann’s rule is also suggested to be applicable at interspecific (e.g. Freckleton et al., 2003) and assemblage (e.g. Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004) levels.”
Broad‐scale patterns of body size in squamate reptiles of Europe and North America (2006, methodology): “…the intraspecific and interspecific versions of Bergmann’s rule have received broad support in mammals (Ashton et al., 2000; Meiri & Dayan, 2003; Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004; Rodrı́guez et al., 2006) and birds (James, 1970; Cousins, 1989; Blackburn & Gaston, 1996; Ashton, 2002; Meiri & Dayan,…”
Red herrings revisited: spatial autocorrelation and parameter estimation in geographical ecology (2007, unknown): “…method in geographical ecology (e.g., Currie and Paquin 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 1987, Ruggiero et al. 1998, Williams et al. 1999, Lennon et al. 2000, Rahbek and Graves 2001, Blackburn and Hawkins 2004, Hawkins et al. 2005; Hawkins and Diniz-Filho 2006).”
Bergmann's rule and the geography of mammal body size in the Western Hemisphere (2008, methodology): “…excluded this hypothesis because it has been shown to be an unlikely explanation for the mean body size patterns of the Holarctic mammal fauna (see Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004; and Rodríguez et al ., 2006) and because only 1.2% of the Neotropics were covered by ice during the late Pleistocene…”
Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change (2011, background): “Although Bergmann never mentioned the converse of smaller organisms in warmer environments, numerous studies have demonstrated that organism size does indeed decrease with increased temperature across latitudinal gradient”
Seeing the forest for the trees: partitioning ecological and phylogenetic components of Bergmann's rule in European Carnivora (2007, methodology): “…the context of variation among closely related species, and a number of papers dealing with interspecific patterns of spatial variation in body size have appeared recently as well (Blackburn and Hawkins 2004, Olalla-Tárraga et al. 2006, Rodrı́guez et al. 2006, Olalla-Tárraga and Rodrı́guez 2007).”
Energy and interspecific body size patterns of amphibian faunas in Europe and North America: anurans follow Bergmann's rule, urodeles its converse (2007, methodology): “To describe amphibian body size patterns and to test these hypotheses, we use a ‘community approach’ ( sensu Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004) by examining the mean body size of species occurring in equal-area grid cells of 110 × 110 km each (see also Olalla-Tárraga et al ., 2006, Rodríguez et al ., 2006).”
Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “Whilst variation in dispersal ability related to body size has been proposed as one possible mechanism driving interspecific patterns (Newton & Dale, 1996; Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004), this would seem unlikely to apply at an intraspecific level.”
The geography of body size - challenges of the interspecific approach (2007, background): “…grid cells (equivalent to the log of the geometric mean of the raw data); and (4) regressing the averaged body sizes on latitude, temperature and other climatic variables to assess which factors influence size (Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004; Olalla-Tarraga et al. , 2006; Rodríguez et al. , 2006).”
Bergmann's rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern (2013, unknown): “…it to the more e ﬃ cient heat conservation in larger organisms – an argument supported by non-linear relationships between body size and temperature in assemblage analyses (Blackburn and Hawkins 2004, Rodr í guez et al. 2008), indicating the relevance of including species from truly cold regions.”
Body size–climate relationships of European spiders (2010, background): “Most studies on large-scale patterns of body size have investigated latitudinal or elevational gradients (Blackburn & Hawkins, 2004; Brehm & Fiedler, 2004; Rodrı́guez-Jimenez & Sarmiento, 2008).”
Subterranean rodents of the genus Ctenomys (Caviomorpha, Ctenomyidae) follow the converse to Bergmann's rule (2007, background): “Blackburn & Gaston (1996), Blackburn & Ruggiero (2001), Blackburn & Hawkins (2004) and Rodrı́guez et al. (2006) found some support for Bergmann’s rule at the interspecific level in New World birds and northern North American and European mammals, but no such evidence is available for most mammals…”