Vertebrate species richness at the mesoscale: relative roles of energy and heterogeneity

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-220

  Fraser, Robert H ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 0032418967     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.1998.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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