Insular effect on sexual size dimorphism in the clouded anole Anolis nebulosus:when Rensch meets Van Valen

• 来源期刊: 动物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（5）
• 所属期刊栏目: Letters to the Editor
• 页码范围: 589-591
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa034

摘要

Insular biodiversity has aroused the curiosity of biologists in assess-ing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses concerning their main-land counterparts.Comparisons of particular life history traits between island and mainland populations have provided a broader view of phenotypic and behavioral plasticity at both intraspecific and interspecific levels(Meiri 2007).Body size has been one of the most important biological traits used to measure phenotypic fea-tures,as it correlates with all aspects of life history and is influenced by many abiotic and biotic factors(Peters 1983).