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Stable body size of Alpine ungulates
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2020-07-15
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The Royal Society,2020
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200196DOI
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In many species, decreasing body size has been associated with increasing temperatures. Although climate-induced phenotypic shifts, and evolutionary impacts, can affect the structure and functioning of marine and terrestrial ecosystems through biological and metabolic rules, evidence for shrinking body size is often challenged by (i) relatively short intervals of observation, (ii) a limited number of individuals, and (iii) confinement to small and isolated populations. To overcome these issues and provide important multi-species, long-term information for conservation managers and scientists, we compiled and analysed 222 961 measurements of eviscerated body weight, 170 729 measurements of hind foot length and 145 980 measurements of lower jaw length, in the four most abundant Alpine ungulate species: ibex (Capra ibex), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). Regardless of age, sex and phylogeny, the body mass and size of these sympatric animals, from the eastern Swiss Alps, remained stable between 1991 and 2013. Neither global warming nor local hunting influenced the fitness of the wild ungulates studied at a detectable level. However, we cannot rule out possible counteracting effects of enhanced nutritional resources associated with longer and warmer growing seasons, as well as the animals' ability to migrate along extensive elevational gradients in the highly diversified alpine landscape of this study.
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Jenny, Hannes
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Galván, J. Diego
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Piermattei, Alma
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Krusic, Paul J.Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi,University of Cambridge, UK(Swepub:su)pakru
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Bollmann, Kurt
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Stockholms universitetInstitutionen för naturgeografi
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In:Royal Society Open Science: The Royal Society7:72054-5703
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