Areas cradles and museums: The latitudinal gradient in species richness

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 311-315

  Chown, Steven L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MODEL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

EID: 0034255818     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01910-8     Document Type: Review

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