Ecological interpretations of the mid-domain effect

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 883-888

  Grytnes, John Arvid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diversity; Geometric constraints; Hard boundary; Null model; Species richness patterns

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0141818216     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00511.x     Document Type: Review

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