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Diet-specific responses of skull traits to aridity gradients in bovids and cervids

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  • 1. Center for Integrative Conservation & Yunnan Key Laboratory for Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Section of Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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M., Ma. Niña Regina, uibod, Gélin, Uriel, Tomlinson, Frank van Langevelde and Kyle W. (2023): Diet-specific responses of skull traits to aridity gradients in bovids and cervids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 (4): 861-870, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad068, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad068

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