The tropics: Cradle, museum or casino? A dynamic null model for latitudinal gradients of species diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 653-663

  Arita, Héctor T ^a   Vázquez Domínguez, Ella ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Distribution; Diversity; Extinction; Geographic range; Latitudinal gradient; Mid domain effect; Null models; Speciation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; HOME RANGE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 44649125353     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01197.x     Document Type: Review

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