Abstract
To advance our understanding of the drivers of phenotypic variation across environmental gradients, we characterize patterns of skull variation across elevational gradients in tropical Andean mice and evaluate three ecomorphological hypotheses—brain-swelling, expensive-tissue, and thermal regulation.
Status
Undergraduate
Department
Wildlife and Conservation Biology
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Campus
Athens
Faculty Mentor
Diego Alvarado Serrano
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Ecological Drivers of Skull Morphological Variation Along Elevational Gradients in Tropical Andean Mice
To advance our understanding of the drivers of phenotypic variation across environmental gradients, we characterize patterns of skull variation across elevational gradients in tropical Andean mice and evaluate three ecomorphological hypotheses—brain-swelling, expensive-tissue, and thermal regulation.