Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 640-649

  Sanders, Nathan J ^a   Lessard, Jean Philippe ^a   Fitzpatrick, Matthew C ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Forests; Formicidae; GreatSmoky Mountains National Park; Productivity; Scale; Speciesrichness; Temperature; USA

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34547997185     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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