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SUBMITTER: Finlay BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1634770 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Finlay Bland J BJ Thomas Jeremy A JA McGavin George C GC Fenchel Tom T Clarke Ralph T RT
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060801 1596
The insects are probably the most hyperdiverse and economically important metazoans on the planet, but there is no consensus on the best way to model the dimensions of their diversity at multiple spatial scales, and the huge amount of information involved hinders data synthesis and the revelation of 'patterns of nature'. Using a sample of more than 600k insect species in the size range 1-100mm, we analysed insect body sizes and revealed self-similar patterns persisting across spatial scales from ...[more]