Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4346-4351

  Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Suweis, Samir ^a   Mari, Lorenzo ^a   Maritan, Amos ^b   Rodríguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Macroecology; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

AVES;

EID: 79952732789     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017274108     Document Type: Article

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