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Bergmann's rule en · PROPN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.