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Body Size
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Sizes, Body
, Body Sizes
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The physical measurements of a body.
National Institutes of Health
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change
J. Sheridan
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D. Bickford
2011
Corpus ID: 3912318
It is well recognized that species are shifting their distributions and the timing of key life events in response to climate…
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA
L. Harmon
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J. Losos
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+16 authors
A. Mooers
Evolution; international journal of organic…
2010
Corpus ID: 17544335
George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated as adaptive radiations—more or less…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size
Sarah S. Greenleaf
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N. Williams
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R. Winfree
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C. Kremen
Oecologia
2007
Corpus ID: 2930039
Bees are the most important pollinator taxon; therefore, understanding the scale at which they forage has important ecological…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Using Standardized Serum Creatinine Values in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate
A. Levey
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J. Coresh
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+5 authors
F. van Lente
Annals of Internal Medicine
2006
Corpus ID: 37149831
Context Guidelines recommend that laboratories estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) with equations that use serum creatinine…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs.
U. Brose
,
T. Jonsson
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+26 authors
Joel E. Cohen
Ecology
2006
Corpus ID: 14554616
It has been suggested that differences in body size between consumer and resource species may have important implications for…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth
V. Savage
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J. Gillooly
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James H. Brown
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G. West
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E. Charnov
The American Naturalist
2004
Corpus ID: 4693534
For at least 200 years, since the time of Malthus, population growth has been recognized as providing a critical link between the…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Temperature, Growth Rate, and Body Size in Ectotherms: Fitting Pieces of a Life-History Puzzle1
M. Angilletta
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T. Steury
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M. Sears
Integrative and comparative biology
2004
Corpus ID: 13079000
Abstract The majority of ectotherms grow slower but mature at a larger body size in colder environments. This phenomenon has…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
The Evolution of Body Size: What Keeps Organisms Small?
W. Blanckenhorn
The Quarterly Review of Biology
2000
Corpus ID: 46730978
It is widely agreed that fecundity selection and sexual selection are the major evolutionary forces that select for larger body…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Predator size - prey size relationships of marine fish predators: interspecific variation and effects of ontogeny and body size on trophic-niche breadth
F. Scharf
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F. Juanes
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R. Rountree
2000
Corpus ID: 4298474
We utilized a long-term data base collected over a broad geographic range to examine predator size - prey size relationships for…
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Body size and proportions in early hominids.
H. Mchenry
American journal of physical anthropology
1992
Corpus ID: 20868708
The discovery of several associated body parts of early hominids whose taxonomic identity is known inspires this study of body…
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