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11087865

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
In the most extensive analysis of body size in marine invertebrates to date, we show that the size-frequency distributions of northeastern Pacific bivalves at the provincial level are surprisingly invariant in modal and median size as well as size range, despite a 4-fold change in species richness from the tropics to the Arctic. The modal sizes and shapes of these size-frequency distributions are consistent with the predictions of an energetic model previously applied to terrestrial mammals and birds. However, analyses of the Miocene-Recent history of body sizes within 82 molluscan genera show little support for the expectation that the modal size is an evolutionary attractor over geological time.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13150-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Invariant size-frequency distributions along a latitudinal gradient in marine bivalves.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA. kroy@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't