Latitude, tree species diversity and the metabolic theory of ecology

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 362-365

  Qian, Hong ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Asia; Latitude; Metabolic theory of ecology; North America; Temperature; Tree species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551542360     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00590.x     Document Type: Letter

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