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Climate, ecological release and bill dimorphism in an island songbird

Sexual size dimorphism is expected to be more pronounced in vertebrates on islands, particularly in trophic characters, as a response to decreased interspecific competition for food. We found (based on measurements of 1423 museum specimens) that bill size dimorphism was greater in island than mainla...

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Main Authors: Greenberg, Russell, Danner, Raymond M.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645045/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23616645
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0118
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