Heritability of geographic range sizes revisited: A reply to Hunt et al.

American Naturalist

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 136-143

  Webb, Thomas J ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographic range size; Heritability; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244497309     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430726     Document Type: Note

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