Richness patterns, species distributions and the principle of extreme deconstruction

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-136

  Terribile, Levi Carina ^a,b   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^b   Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel ^c   Rangel, Thiago Fernando L V B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution modelling; Extreme deconstruction; Range size; Snakes; Species richness; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MODELING; PHYLOGENETICS; RANGE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 60349118527     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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