Alternative causes for range limits: A metapopulation perspective

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-47

  Holt, Robert D ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological constraints on evolutionary dynamics; Gradients; Metapopulation dynamics; Species borders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033978297     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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