Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate

• Main Authors: Slavenko, Alex, Feldman, Anat, Allison, Allen, Bauer, Aaron Matthew, Böhm, Monika, Chirio, Laurent, Colli, Guarino R, Das, Indraneil, Doan, Tiffany M., LeBreton, Matthew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Online Library 2019
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23509/1/Global%20patterns%20of%20body%20size%20evolution%20in%20squamate.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23509/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.12868

Aim: Variation in body size across animal species underlies most ecological and evo‐lutionary processes shaping local‐ and large‐scale patterns of biodiversity. For well over a century, climatic factors have been regarded as primary sources of natural selection on animal body size, and hypotheses su...