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Body Size

Known as: Sizes, Body, Body Sizes, Size, Body 
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
It is well recognized that species are shifting their distributions and the timing of key life events in response to climate… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA
George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated as adaptive radiations—more or less… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size
Bees are the most important pollinator taxon; therefore, understanding the scale at which they forage has important ecological… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Using Standardized Serum Creatinine Values in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate
Context Guidelines recommend that laboratories estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) with equations that use serum creatinine… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs.
It has been suggested that differences in body size between consumer and resource species may have important implications for… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth
For at least 200 years, since the time of Malthus, population growth has been recognized as providing a critical link between the… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Temperature, Growth Rate, and Body Size in Ectotherms: Fitting Pieces of a Life-History Puzzle1
Abstract The majority of ectotherms grow slower but mature at a larger body size in colder environments. This phenomenon has… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
The Evolution of Body Size: What Keeps Organisms Small?
It is widely agreed that fecundity selection and sexual selection are the major evolutionary forces that select for larger body… 
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
We utilized a long-term data base collected over a broad geographic range to examine predator size - prey size relationships for… 
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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