Refining latitudinal gradient analyses: Do we live in a climatically symmetrical world?

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-296

  France, R L ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic asymmetry; Latitudinal gradients; Meteorological equator; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010434692     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997603     Document Type: Article

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