Rapoport's rule, species tolerances, and the latitudinal diversity gradient: Geometric considerations

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3575-3586

  Šizling, Arnošt L ^a,b   Storch, David ^a   Keil, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Equatorial effect; Implicit latitudinal gradient; Macroecology; Mid domain effect; Physiological tolerance; Potential range; Rapoport's rule; Stevens's principle

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; MACROECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RAPOPORT RULE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72949093836     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1129.1     Document Type: Article

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