There's more to macroecology than meets the eye

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 537-540

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographical ecology; Macroecology; Mapping; Rapoport's rule; Spatial autocorrelation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; MACROECOLOGY; RAPOPORT RULE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750362724     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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