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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction On Being the Right Size: The Impor tance of Size in Life History, Ecology, and Evolution
- Chapter One Macroecological Patterns in Insect Body Size
- Chapter Two Latitudinal Variation of Body Size in Land Snail Populations and Communities
- Chapter Three Geographic Variation in Body Size Distributions of Continental Avifauna
- Chapter Four Evolution of Body Size in Bats
- Chapter Five Macroecological Patterns of Body Size in Mammals across Time and Space
- Chapter Six Using Size Distributions to Understand the Role of Body Size in Mammalian Community Assembly
- Chapter Seven Processes Responsible for Patterns in Body Mass Distributions
- Chapter Eight The Influence of Flight on Patterns of Body Size Diversity and Heritability
- Chapter Nine On Body Size and Life History of Mammals
- Conclusion The Way Forward
- Contributors
- Index
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction On Being the Right Size: The Impor tance of Size in Life History, Ecology, and Evolution
- Chapter One Macroecological Patterns in Insect Body Size
- Chapter Two Latitudinal Variation of Body Size in Land Snail Populations and Communities
- Chapter Three Geographic Variation in Body Size Distributions of Continental Avifauna
- Chapter Four Evolution of Body Size in Bats
- Chapter Five Macroecological Patterns of Body Size in Mammals across Time and Space
- Chapter Six Using Size Distributions to Understand the Role of Body Size in Mammalian Community Assembly
- Chapter Seven Processes Responsible for Patterns in Body Mass Distributions
- Chapter Eight The Influence of Flight on Patterns of Body Size Diversity and Heritability
- Chapter Nine On Body Size and Life History of Mammals
- Conclusion The Way Forward
- Contributors
- Index