A test of multiple hypotheses for the species richness gradient of South American owls

Oecologia

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 633-638

  Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a,b   Rangel, Thiago F L V B ^a   Hawkins, Bradford A ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary history; Landcover diversity; South America; Species richness; Strigiformes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RAPTOR; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; OWL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES;

SOUTH AMERICA;

STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 4544271637     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1577-4     Document Type: Article

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