Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33613991›Full record

ArticleEcology and evolution2021

Anthropogenically modified habitats favor bigger and bolder lizards.

Lachlan Pettit, Gregory P Brown, Georgia Ward-Fear, Richard Shine

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lachlan PettitSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2628-1416
Gregory P BrownDepartment of Biological Sciences Macquarie University Sydney NSW Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2924-9040
Georgia Ward-FearDepartment of Biological Sciences Macquarie University Sydney NSW Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4808-1933
Richard ShineSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-5657

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic activities often create distinctive but discontinuously distributed habitat patches with abundant food but high risk of predation. Such sites can be most effectively utilized by individuals with specific behaviors and morphologies. Thus, a widespread species that contains a diversity of sizes and behavioral types may be pre-adapted to exploiting such hotspots. In eastern Australia, the giant (to >2 m) lizard

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intraspecificniche partitioningresource subsidyVaranidae

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PMID33613991
PMCPMC7882987

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