Species diversity: From global decreases to local increases

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 561-566

  Sax, Dov F ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0141975768     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00224-6     Document Type: Article

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