When Bergmann's rule fails: evidences of environmental selection pressures shaping phenotypic diversification in a widespread seabird

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Nunes, Guilherme Tavares, Mancini, Patrícia Luciano, Bugoni, Leandro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Saint-Paul; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02209; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fecog.02209; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecog.02209

Organisms tend to exhibit phenotypes that can be shaped by climate, commonly demonstrating clinal variations along latitudinal gradients. In vertebrates, air temperature plays a major role in shaping body size in both ectothermic and endothermic animals. However, additional small‐scale environmental...