Causes of latitudinal gradients in species richness: A test with fishes of the tropical eastern pacific

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1771-1782

  Mora, Camilo ^a   Robertson, D Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Diversity; Energy habitat stability effects; Fishes; Geographic range; Mid domain effect; Rapoport's rule; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOFAUNA; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RAPOPORT RULE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); WORLD;

PISCES;

EID: 21744459613     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0883     Document Type: Article

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