Body Size Evolution in Snakes: Evidence from Island Populations

By S. Boback. Copeia, 2003

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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 & Hand”
Length-weight allometries in lizards (2010, background): “…fishes, caecilians, urodeles and snakes, for example, the total body length usually predominates, and for frogs and lizards, it is snout–vent length (SVL, or sometimes SUL for snout–urostyle length in frogs) (Boback, 2003; Olalla-Tarraga, Rodrıguez & Hawkins, 2006; Olden et al., 2007; Meiri, 2008).”
Size evolution in island lizards (2007, unknown): “Olesen & Valido (2003) argued that insects are often scarce on islands relative to the mainland, while on the other hand islands may harbour an excess of vertebrate prey in the form of sea-bird chicks (Schwaner & Sarre, 1990; Bonnet et al. , 2002; Boback, 2003; see also Goltsman et al. , 2005).”
Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule (2005, background): “4 & Table 2; see also Aponte et al., 2003; Boback, 2003).”
Maximum body size among insular Komodo dragon populations covaries with large prey density (2006, background): “in island dwelling snakes by Boback (2003) found that physiographic variables such as”