Size is not everything: A meta-analysis of geographic variation in microscopic eukaryotes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-485

  Faurby, Søren ^a,b   Funch, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; EIE; Everything is everywhere; Geographic variation; Marine eukaryotes; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EUKARYOTE; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; META-ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

COPEPODA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79953830071     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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