… may drive body-size evolution on spatial and … species body size is not known. We developed
a generalized diffusion model of species body-size evolution, in which the size distribution …

… factors explaining the enormous diversity of body size within and between taxa. We … species’
body size distributions are so peculiar, most often skewed to the right even on the log-body …

… mass and the relationship between surplus power and the species–body size distribution,
we have thus far ignored a number of other assumptions underlying the BMT model. This …

… log-normally distributed (5, 6). This can be seen in a variety of data from both plants and
animals (5, … According to Harvey (41), interspecific data tend to be log normally distributed, while …

… for distribution shape. In this study, variation in the species body size-frequency distributions
… examined in relation to latitude, species richness, and taxonomic composition. Although the …

… species–body size distribution. In this article, we focus on the species–body size distribution
(also known as the body size… the number of species in several logarithmic body size classes. …

… Consequently, the form of these frequency distributions has been much debated. Empirical
… complete animal species–body size distribution to date for those free-living species breeding …

… , but still not many, species for which analogous viability costs … Salmonid diet and the size,
distribution, and density of benthic … endurance and the evolution of mammalian body size. Func…

… case, when species have not yet been discovered, because of course we do not know
where in the body size distribution these species might lie, or to which species they are closely …

… These methods rely on two types of information: the distribution … species for which data were
available. We also list the maximum likelihood estimate of the net rate of body size evolution …