Lifestyle-Based Approaches Provide Insights into Body Size Variation Across Environmental Gradients in Anurans

Mean body sizes of amphibian species are poorly predicted by climate

(2015) Alex Slavenko et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large-scale variation of size- and age-related life-history traits in the common frog: a sensitive test case for macroecological rules

(2015) U. Sinsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Australian Snakes Do Not Follow Bergmann’s Rule

(2014) Anat Feldman et al.   Evolutionary Biology

The Cold-Water Connection: Bergmann’s Rule in North American Freshwater Fishes

(2013) Andrew L. Rypel   AMERICAN NATURALIST

An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support for Patterns, No Signals of Processes

(2013) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

(2013) R. A. Pyron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual Size Dimorphism in Anurans: Ontogenetic Determination Revealed by an Across-Species Comparison

(2012) Lixia Zhang et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Age and body size of Salamandrella keyserlingii (Caudata: Hynobiidae): a difference in altitudes, latitudes, and temperatures

(2012) Masato Hasumi et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Adult body size = f (initial size + growth rate × age): explaining the proximate cause of Bergman’s cline in a toad along altitudinal gradients

(2011) Wenbo Liao et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Elevational Patterns of Species Richness, Range and Body Size for Spiny Frogs

(2011) Junhua Hu et al.   PLoS One

A skeletochronological estimation of age and body size by the Sichuan torrent frog (Amolops mantzorum) between two populations at different altitudes

(2010) Wen Bo Liao et al.   ANIMAL BIOLOGY

Not just small, wet, and cold: effects of body size and skin resistance on thermoregulation and arboreality of frogs

(2010) Christopher R. Tracy et al.   ECOLOGY

Uninformative Parameters and Model Selection Using Akaike's Information Criterion

(2010) Todd W. Arnold   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Geographic body size gradients in tropical regions: water deficit and anuran body size in the Brazilian Cerrado

(2009) Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds

(2009) Valérie A. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Altitudinal decline of body size in a Tibetan frog

(2009) X. Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The evolution of body size under environmental gradients in ectotherms: why should Bergmann's rule apply to lizards?

(2008) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

AMPHIBIANS DO NOT FOLLOW BERGMANN'S RULE

(2008) Dean C. Adams et al.   EVOLUTION

Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis

(2007) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY