Beyond Rapoport's rule: Evaluating range size patterns of New World birds in a two-dimensional framework

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 461-469

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Felizola Diniz filho, José Alexandre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Macroecology; New World birds; Orographic effects; Range in elevation; Range size; Rapoport's rule; Topographic relief

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; MACROECOLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RANGE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARGENTINA; CANADA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33747048254     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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