Seaweeds, latitudinal diversity patterns, and Rapoport's Rule

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 71-75

  Santelices, Bernabé ^a   Marquet, Pablo A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climatic variation; Growth rates; Latitudinal diversity patterns; Rapoport's Rule; Seaweeds distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001877856     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.1998.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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