More than "more individuals": The nonequivalence of area and energy in the scaling of species richness

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Hurlbert, Allen H ^a   Jetz, Walter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Productivity; Scale; Species richness; Species area relationship; Species energy relationship

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

AVES;

EID: 77955624882     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650723     Document Type: Article

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