The 'rotiferologist' effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-182

  Fontaneto, Diego ^a,b   Barbosa, A Márcia ^a   Segers, Hendrik ^c   Pautasso, Marco ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DISPERSAL; FAUNISTICS; INVERTEBRATE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84856223871     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06850.x     Document Type: Article

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