Geographic and climatic range sizes of Australian eucalypts and a test of Rapoport's rule

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 128-142

  Hughes, Lesley ^a,c   Cawsey, E M ^b   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic range; Eucalyptus; Geographic range; Latitude; Rapoport's rule

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC RANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE; LATITUDE; RAPOPORT'S RULE;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; MONOCALYPTUS; MYRTACEAE; SYMPHYOMYRTUS;

EID: 0030435235     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997395     Document Type: Article

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