An indirect area effect on elevational species richness patterns

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 440-448

  Romdal, Tom S ^a   Grytnes, John Arvid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; ELEVATION; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250009030     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2007.04954.x     Document Type: Review

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