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Intrinsic rate of natural increase in Neotropical forest mammals: relationship to phylogeny and diet

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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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    Kent H. Redford

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Robinson, J.G., Redford, K.H. Intrinsic rate of natural increase in Neotropical forest mammals: relationship to phylogeny and diet. Oecologia 68, 516–520 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00378765

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