Spatial patterns of viperid species richness in South America: Environmental temperature vs. biochemical kinetics;Padrões espaciais da riqueza de espécies de viperídeos na América do sul: Temperatura ambiental vs. cinética-bioquímica

Acta Scientiarum - Biological Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-158

  Lima Ribeiro, Matheus Souza ^a   Rangel, Thiago Fernando Lopes Vale Brito ^a   Pinto, Miriam Plaza ^a   Moura, Ionai'i Ossami ^a   Melo, Tatiana Lima ^a   Terribile, Levi Carina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Ectothermic taxa; Energetic equivalence rule; Latitudinal gradients of diversity; Metabolic theory of ecology

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; SNAKE; SOUTH AMERICA;

VIPERIDAE;

EID: 77953790889     PISSN: 16799283     EISSN: 1807863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v32i2.4303     Document Type: Article

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