A hemispheric assessment of scale dependence in latitudinal gradients of species richness

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2483-2491

  Lyons, S Kathleen ^a,b   Willig, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areography; Bats; Biodiversity; Geographical ecology; Macroecology; Marsupials; Scale dependence

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0033406120     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2483:AHAOSD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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