Are there latitudinal and altidudinal Rapoport effects in the geographic ranges of Andean passerine birds?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-304

  Ruggiero, Adriana ^a,b   Lawton, John H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Altitude; Andean birds; Geographic range; Latitude; Rapoport's hale

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIRD; LATITIDE; RANGE SIZE; RAPOPORT'S RULE;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031919459     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0190     Document Type: Article

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