Webb, T.J. and Gaston, K.J. (2005) Heritability of geographic range sizes revisited:a reply to Hunt et al. The American Naturalist. pp. 136-143. ISSN 1537-5323
Abstract
Hunt et al.(2005) revisit the issue of range size heritability following our recent article on this topic (Webb and Gaston 2003). In that article, we showed that the range sizes of closely related species tend to be highly dissimilar and argued that this provided evidence to counter Jablonski’s (1987) claim that range size was a heritable species-level trait. Hunt et al. do not dispute the fact that the species pairs that we examined have highly asymmetric range sizes; however, they claim that the statistical technique that we used to assess the significance of this asymmetry is flawed. They then return to correlation analyses to support their assertion that range size is indeed heritable. While some points of technical interest are raised, we disagree with their conclusions and feel that the analyses that they present provide little insight into the ultimate questions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2005 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | geographic range size,variability,heritability |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Repository Assistant |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2006 |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 00:22 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:1441 |