Does plant richness influence animal richness?: The mammals of Catalonia (NE Spain)

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-252

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Pausas, Juli G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diversity gradients; Energy hypothesis; Mammal species richness; Plant species richness; Spatial autocorrelation; Water energy dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 3042805360     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00085.x     Document Type: Article

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