A globally consistent richness-climate relationship for angiosperms

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 523-536

  Francis, Anthony P ^a   Currie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; Climatic gradient; Diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037395539     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368223     Document Type: Article

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