The role of local-scale processes on terrestrial and deep-sea gastropod body size distributions across multiple scales

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-146

  McClain, Craig R ^a,b   Nekola, Jeffrey C ^b  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Body size spectrum; Community structure; Macroecology; Mollusc; Productivity; Scale dependency

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 39749124242     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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