Scale and species numbers

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 400-404

  Godfray, H Charles J ^a   Lawton, John H ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; IMMIGRATION; SITE SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMIGRATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0035400519     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02150-4     Document Type: Review

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