Intrinsic rate of natural increase in Neotropical forest mammals: relationship to phylogeny and diet
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Oecologia
- Vol. 68 (4), 516-520
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00378765
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.Keywords
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