Energy, water, and broad-scale geographic patterns of species richness

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3105-3117

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Field, Richard ^b   Cornell, Howard V ^c   Currie, David J ^d   Guégan, Jean François ^e   Kaufman, Dawn M ^f   Kerr, Jeremy T ^d   Mittelbach, Gary G ^g   Oberdorff, Thierry ^h   O'Brien, Eileen M ^i,j   Porter, Eric E ^k   Turner, John R G ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ Gainesville College   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^k MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Diversity gradients; Energy hypothesis; Latitudinal gradient; Productivity hypothesis; Species richness; Species energy theory; Water energy dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGETICS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE; ENERGY BALANCE; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER BUDGET;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10744225171     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-8006     Document Type: Review

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