Structure of the species-energy relationship

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1549, 2004, Pages 1685-1691

  Bonn, Aletta ^a   Storch, David ^b,c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupancy; Productivity; Species turnover; Species area effect; Species energy relationship

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ENERGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DENSITY; ENERGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES;

EID: 4243133656     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2745     Document Type: Article

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