Intrinsic rate of natural increase in Neotropical forest mammals: relationship to phylogeny and diet - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1986 Mar;68(4):516-520.

doi: 10.1007/BF00378765.

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Intrinsic rate of natural increase in Neotropical forest mammals: relationship to phylogeny and diet

John G Robinson et al. Oecologia. 1986 Mar.

Abstract

The relationship of diet and phylogeny to the intrinsic rate of population increase (r max) was examined in a sample of 39 mammalian species that live in Neotropical forests. Diets of species did not predict their r max, contrary to published predictions based on associations between basal metabolic rate and diet and between basal metabolic rate and r max. Phylogeny did however, apparently because life history characteristics and susceptibility to predation vary predictably with phylogeny and with one another.

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