Climate, energy and diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2257-2266

  Clarke, Andrew ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Energy; Photosynthetically active radiation; Speciation; Species richness; Temperature

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CLIMATE EFFECT; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GROWTH RATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33748689735     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3545     Document Type: Review

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