Temperature dependence, spatial scale, and tree species diversity in eastern Asia and North America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13388-13392

  Wang, Zhiheng ^a,b   Brown, James H ^c   Tang, Zhiyao ^a,b   Fang, Jingyun ^a,b  

^a Sino France Institute of Earth Systems Science   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Kinetic energy; Metabolic theory of ecology; Species richness; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLD CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; NORTH AMERICA; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 69449104540     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905030106     Document Type: Article

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