Weak links: 'Rapoport's rule' and large-scale species richness patterns

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

  Kerr, Jeremy T ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Latitudinal gradients; North America; Rapoport rescue hypothesis; Rapoport's rule; Species richness; Species richness energy hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033396227     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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