Local and regional species richness relationships in viperid snake assemblages from South America: Unsaturated patterns at three different spatial scales

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2000, Pages 799-805

  Bini, Luis M ^a   Diniz Filho, José A ^a   Bonfim, Fernanda ^a   Bastos, Rogério P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034604472     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2000)000[0799:LARSRR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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