Global patterns in species richness of pelagic seabirds: The procellariiformes

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 342-350

  Chown, Steven L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Williams, Paul H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENDEMISM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; SEABIRD; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PROCELLARIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031871056     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00399.x     Document Type: Article

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