Influence of continental history on the ecological specialization and macroevolutionary processes in the mammalian assemblage of South America: Differences between small and large mammals

BACKGROUND: This paper tests Vrba's resource-use hypothesis, which predicts that generalist species have lower specialization and extinction rates than specialists, using the 879 species of South American mammals. We tested several predictions about this hypothesis using the biomic specializati...

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Autores principales: Bofarull, Ana Moreno, Royo, Antón Arias, Fernández, Manuel Hernández, Ortiz-Jaureguizar, Edgardo, Morales, Jorge
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2330041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-97

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2330041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-97

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