A sideways look at patterns in species richness, or why there are so few species outside the tropics

Biodiversity Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 44-53

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a NONE

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SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICS;

EID: 0030320131     PISSN: 09679952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2999768     Document Type: Article

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