Latitudinal gradient in species richness of the New World Triatominae (Reduviidae)

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-84

  Rodriguero, Marcela S ^a   Gorla, David E ^a  

^a ECLAT   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Area hypothesis; Chagas disease; GIS; Macroecology; Species richness gradient; Species energy hypothesis; Triatominae

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INSECT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 1942531333     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-882X.2004.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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