Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1115-1123

  Soberón, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bionomic; Distributional areas; Elton; Grinnell; Niche; Scenopoetic; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GRINNELLIA;

EID: 35848961225     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01107.x     Document Type: Review

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