Mollusk species diversity in the Southeastern Pacific: Why are there more species towards the pole?

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-144

  Valdovinos, Claudio ^a   Navarrete, Sergio A ^b   Marquet, Pablo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MOLLUSC; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0038413999     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03349.x     Document Type: Article

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