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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Climatic temperature and precipitation jointly influence body size in species of western rattlesnakes.

Jesse M Meik, Jessica A Watson, Drew R Schield, Blair W Perry, Yannick Francioli, Hannah Guss, Stephen P Mackessy, Todd A Castoe

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolution of genome-wide barriers to gene flow during complex speciation in rattlesnakes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jesse M MeikDepartment of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-8255
Jessica A WatsonDepartment of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Drew R SchieldDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Blair W PerrySchool of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
Yannick FrancioliDepartment of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
Hannah GussDepartment of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
Stephen P MackessySchool of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-2545
Todd A CastoeDepartment of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-1574

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Both the metabolic theory of ecology and dynamic energy budget theory predict that climate influences body size through its effects on first-order determinants of energetics: reactive temperatures, carbon resources and oxygen availability. Although oxygen is seldom limiting in terrestrial systems, temperature and resources vary spatially. We used redundancy analyses and variation partitioning to evaluate the influence of climatic temperature, precipitation and their seasonalities on multivariate body size across the distributions of four species of the western rattlesnake group in North America (

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Bergmann’s rulebiogeographybody size evolutionCrotalusredundancy analysisvariation partitioning

Identifiers

PMID39113769
PMCPMC11303023

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