Global gradients in vertebrate diversity predicted by historical area-productivity dynamics and contemporary environment

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jetz, Walter ^a   Fine, Paul V A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84858987364     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001292     Document Type: Article

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