Biogeography and ecology: Towards the integration of two disciplines

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1576, 2011, Pages 2438-2448

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a   Jenkins, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

History; Macroecology; Niche; Phylogeny; Regional community; Species sorting

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PHYLOGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 79960487506     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0066     Document Type: Review

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