Environmental controls on the geographic distribution of zooplankton diversity

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6746, 1999, Pages 749-753

  Rutherford, Scott ^a   D'Hondt, Steven ^a   Prell, Warren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0033584322     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23449     Document Type: Article

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