Is there a latitudinal gradient in the importance of biotic interactions?

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 245-269

  Schemske, Douglas W ^a   Mittelbach, Gary G ^a   Cornell, Howard V ^b   Sobel, James M ^a   Roy, Kaustuv ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic factors; Community diversity; Latitudinal gradient; Species diversity; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANT; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MUTUALISM; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL REGION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 76749141938     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173430     Document Type: Article

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