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Habitat disturbance selects against both small and large species across varying climates

Journal Article · · Ecography
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03244· OSTI ID:1541582
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  1. Dept of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe Univ, Melbourne 3 VIC Australia
  2. Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington VT USA
  3. Dept of Biology, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh NC USA
  4. Depo de Botânica, Univ. Federal Pernambuco, Recife PE Brazil
  5. Inst. of Biology, Federal Univ. of Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, MG Brazil
  6. Univ. de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Cuenca Ecuador
  7. Charles Darwin Univ., Casuarina NT Australia
  8. Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém PA Brazil
  9. Dept of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool UK; Centre for Invasion Biology, Dept of Zoology and Entomology, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria South Africa
  10. Dept of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Girona, Girona Spain
  11. Inst. for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Univ. Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia
  12. School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
  13. Dept of Biology, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA
  14. CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya Spain
  15. Dept of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna Austria
  16. Dept of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool UK; Dept of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Wits South Africa
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Research Organization:
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-08ER64510
OSTI ID:
1541582
Journal Information:
Ecography, Vol. 41, Issue 7; ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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