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| Title |
The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0008776 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John J. Welch |
| Abstract |
One of the most intriguing patterns in mammalian biogeography is the "island rule", which states that colonising species have a tendency to converge in body size, with larger species evolving decreased sizes and smaller species increased sizes. It has recently been suggested that an analogous pattern holds for the colonisation of the deep-sea benthos by marine Gastropoda. In particular, a pioneering study showed that gastropods from the Western Atlantic showed the same graded trend from dwarfism to gigantism that is evident in island endemic mammals. However, subsequent to the publication of the gastropod study, the standard tests of the island rule have been shown to yield false positives at a very high rate, leaving the result open to doubt. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 89 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 81 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 19 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 14 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 44 | 49% |
| Environmental Science | 13 | 15% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 17 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2024.
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#3,712,446
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#46,077
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Outputs of similar age
#21,399
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#192
of 612 outputs
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