Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1614, 2007, Pages 1189-1197

  Davies, Richard G ^a   Orme, C David L ^b   Storch, David ^c   Olson, Valerie A ^d   Thomas, Gavin H ^b,e   Ross, Simon G ^a   Ding, Tzung Su ^f   Rasmussen, Pamela C ^g   Bennett, Peter M ^d   Owens, Ian P F ^b   Blackburn, Tim M ^e   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric constraints; Global biodiversity; Habitat heterogeneity; Species richness; Species energy theory; Topography

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HETEROGENEITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ECOLOGY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLACIER; HABITAT; LAND BIOME; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

AVES;

EID: 34447339358     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0061     Document Type: Article

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