Simulation of Rapoport's rule for latitudinal species spread

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-65

  Stauffer, Dietrich ^a   Rohde, Klaus ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chowdury model; Computer simulations; Latitudinal gradients; Rapoport's rule; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRTH; DEATH; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646569906     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: 16117530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thbio.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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