Testing, as opposed to supporting, the Mid-domain Hypothesis: A response to Lees and Colwell (2007)

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Currie, David ^a,b   Kerr, Jeremy ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Birds; Diversity; Madagascar; Mammals; MDE; Mid domain effect; Range; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; MAMMAL; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547482405     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01074.x     Document Type: Review

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