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Título: | Testing the 'island rule' for a tenebrionid beetle (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) |
Autor: | Palmer, Miquel CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Balearic islands Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) Island rule Island size Body size |
Fecha de publicación: | 2002 | Editor: | Elsevier | Citación: | Acta Oecologica 23(2): 103-107 (2002) | Resumen: | Insular populations and their closest mainland counterparts commonly display body size differences that are considered to fit the island rule, a theoretical framework to explain both dwarfism and gigantism in isolated animal populations. The island rule is used to explain the pattern of change of body size at the inter-specific level. But the model implicitly makes also a prediction for the body size of isolated populations of a single species. It suggests that, for a hypothetical species coveting a wide range of island sizes, there exists a specific island size where this species reaches the largest body size. Body size would be small (in relative terms) in the smallest islets of the species range. It would increase with island size, and reach a maximum at some specific island size. However, additional increases from such a specific island size would instead promote body size reduction, and small (in relative terms) body sizes would be found again on the largest islands. The biogeographical patterns predicted by the island rule have been described and analysed for vertebrates only (mainly mammals), but remain largely untested for insects or other invertebrates. I analyse here the pattern of body size variation between seven isolated insular populations of a flightless beetle, Asida planipennis (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). This is an endemic species of Mallorca, Menorca and a number of islands and islets in the Balearic archipelago (western Mediterranean). The study covers seven of the 15 known populations (i.e., there are only 15 islands or islets inhabited by the species). The populations studied fit the pattern advanced above and we could, therefore, extrapolate the island rule to a very different kind of organism. However, the small sample size of some of the populations invites some caution at this early stage. © 2002 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS. All tights reserved. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/99504 | DOI: | 10.1016/S1146-609X(02)01140-2 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1016/S1146-609X(02)01140-2 issn: 1146-609X |
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