Explaining the global biodiversity gradient: Energy, area, history and natural selection

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 435-448

  Turner, John R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition; Ecological niche; Extinction; Latitude; Metacommunity; Neutral theory; Speciation rate; Species energy theory; Topography

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344229481     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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