A brief response to Brooker et al.'s comment

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 928-931

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Local processes; Regional processes; Scale; Species assemblage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; LOCAL PLANNING; NATURAL BARRIER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARIZONA; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72449187635     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648059     Document Type: Review

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