Sentence examples for body size patterns of from inspiring English sources

They differ, however, with body size patterns of Mexican bat assemblages where the frequency distribution of body sizes was right-skewed at local, intermediate and regional scale [67].

Here, we found that regional heterogeneity in habitat productivity was a moderate predictor of body size patterns of grizzly bears in Alberta.

Human footprint did not directly relate to body size patterns of grizzly bears, but human activity indirectly affected body size by influencing habitats.

These results illustrated that body size patterns of grizzly bears, while largely affected by basic biological characteristics (age and sex), were also influenced by regional environmental gradients the year before, and of, the individual's birth thus illustrating silver spoon effects.

Although population density (density dependence) is known to inversely affect body-size patterns in animals [ 80- 82], no density dependent effects on body size patterns of grizzly bears were observed in our study.

Here, we evaluated the importance of six different factors on springtime body size patterns in grizzly bears of Alberta, Canada (see Table  1).

In the case of body size patterns observed in Liolaemus species, the distribution of this trait across the phylogeny may reveal only a partial effect of shared ancestry.

Here, the altitudinal body-size pattern of spiny frogs did not follow Bergmann's rule.

We find no evidence that local adaptation in phenotypic plasticity can explain this result, and suggest indirect selection on traits closely linked with body size, or patterns of chromosome inversion may instead be driving this relationship.

The diversification of beak morphology and body size has shaped patterns of vocal signal evolution, resulting in reproductive isolation and speciation in Darwin's finches [ 19].

Collectively, the models indicate that both simple behavioral rules and interactions between body size and spatial patterns of thermal variation can profoundly affect the distribution of realized body temperatures experienced by ectotherms.