Untangling ecological complexity on different scales of space and time

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 389-400

  Storch, David ^a,b   Gaston, Kevin J ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biodiversity; Body size; Geographic range; Local and regional; Macroecology; Species distribution; Species richness; Species area; Species energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344255692     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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