Non-stationarity, diversity gradients and the metabolic theory of ecology

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 820-822

  da Silva Cassemiro, Fernanda Aparecida ^a   de Souza Barreto, Bruno ^b   Rangel, Thiago Fernando L V B ^c   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Latitudinal gradients; Macroecology; Metabolic theory; Non stationarity; Spatial autocorrelation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348931757     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00332.x     Document Type: Letter

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