Geographic patterns of body-mass diversity in Mexican mammals

Oikos

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 310-319

  Arita, Hector T ^a   Figueroa, Fernanda ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; LATITUDE; MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032985279     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546497     Document Type: Article

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