English Explanatory Dictionary

Bergmann's rule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The ecogeographic principle that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions.

Word forms

Bergmann's rule

Etymology

Named after Carl Bergmann, 19th-century German biologist.

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