Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition - environment relationship in the contiguous USA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kent, Rafi ^a   Bar Massada, Avi ^b   Carmel, Yohay ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053189049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025440     Document Type: Article

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