Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 324-333

  Dunn, Robert R ^a   Agosti, Donat ^b   Andersen, Alan N ^c   Arnan, Xavier ^c,d   Bruhl, Carsten A ^e   Cerdá, Xim ^f   Ellison, Aaron M ^g   Fisher, Brian L ^h   Fitzpatrick, Matthew C ^g   Gibb, Heloise ⁱ   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^j   Gove, Aaron D ^a,k   Guenard, Benoit ^a   Janda, Milan ^l   Kaspari, Michael ^m   Laurent, Edward J ^a   Lessard, Jean Philippe ⁿ   Longino, John T ^o   Majer, Jonathan D ^k   Menke, Sean B ^a   McGlynn, Terrence P ^p   Parr, Catherine L ^q   Philpott, Stacy M ^r   Pfeiffer, Martin ^s   Retana, Javier ^d   Suarez, Andrew V ^t   Vasconcelos, Heraldo L ^u   Weiser, Michael D ^a   Sanders, Nathan J ⁿ   more..

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre ^*  (Switzerland)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^k CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^o EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^p CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^u FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

more..

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Eocene; Formicidae; Latitudinal gradient

Indexed keywords

ANT; ASYMMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; EOCENE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 62249209482     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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