GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; CE3C - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group / CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute and Universidade dos Açores - Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment, PT-9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal.
Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 19;33(12):R684-R686. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.062.
Islands are arenas for a range of striking evolutionary phenomena, including the island rule - the tendency for larger animals to shrink and smaller animals to enlarge. A new study of insular mammals finds such body size shifts predispose these evolutionary marvels to greater extinction risk.
岛屿是一系列引人注目的进化现象的竞技场，包括岛屿法则——较大的动物倾向于缩小，较小的动物倾向于增大。一项对岛屿哺乳动物的新研究发现，这种体型大小的变化使这些进化奇观更容易灭绝。
