An external and cranial mophometric study of altitudinal variation in Microtus arvalis in Switzerland ...
Cranial and external measurements in 422 museum specimens of the common vole, Microtus arvalis, from Switzerland were examined to determine whether they varied with altitude in accordance with either (1) Bergmann's Rule, or (2) subspeciation. Correlation coefficients between altitude and size w...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0095479 2024-04-28T08:16:13+00:00 An external and cranial mophometric study of altitudinal variation in Microtus arvalis in Switzerland ... Prescott-Allen, Christine 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0095479 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0095479 en eng University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0095479 2024-04-02T09:36:37Z Cranial and external measurements in 422 museum specimens of the common vole, Microtus arvalis, from Switzerland were examined to determine whether they varied with altitude in accordance with either (1) Bergmann's Rule, or (2) subspeciation. Correlation coefficients between altitude and size were calculated on 32 dimensions, each of which had been divided into sex segregated age groups. In not one of the 108 tests was correlation significant. The lack of adherence to Bergmann's Rule was investigated by (1) reviewing the basic concepts of the Rule, as applied to homeotherms; (2) identifying the major abiotic and biotic selection pressures that might affect growth in Microtus arvalis, including climate and competition with sympatric congenerics; and (3) indicating deficiencies in data derived from museum specimens which might have influenced the computations. There were several references in the literature to the occurrence of two subspecies of Microtus arvalis in Switzerland - the nominate subspecies M. a. ... Text Common vole Microtus arvalis DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Cranial and external measurements in 422 museum specimens of the common vole, Microtus arvalis, from Switzerland were examined to determine whether they varied with altitude in accordance with either (1) Bergmann's Rule, or (2) subspeciation. Correlation coefficients between altitude and size were calculated on 32 dimensions, each of which had been divided into sex segregated age groups. In not one of the 108 tests was correlation significant. The lack of adherence to Bergmann's Rule was investigated by (1) reviewing the basic concepts of the Rule, as applied to homeotherms; (2) identifying the major abiotic and biotic selection pressures that might affect growth in Microtus arvalis, including climate and competition with sympatric congenerics; and (3) indicating deficiencies in data derived from museum specimens which might have influenced the computations. There were several references in the literature to the occurrence of two subspecies of Microtus arvalis in Switzerland - the nominate subspecies M. a. ... |
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