Regional pools and environmental controls of vertebrate richness

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-523

  Belmaker, Jonathan ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological inventories; Environmental similarity; Range maps; Regional enrichment; Scale; Species pool; Species richness; Terrestrial vertebrates

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAMMAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; MAMMAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMALS;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858769987     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664610     Document Type: Article

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