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John G Robinson1, Kent H Redford2
1Department of Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, Fl, USA.
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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