Environmental effects on vertebrate species richness: Testing the energy, environmental stability and habitat heterogeneity hypotheses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Luo, Zhenhua ^a,b   Tang, Songhua ^a   Li, Chunwang ^a   Fang, Hongxia ^a   Hu, Huijian ^c   Yang, Ji ^a   Ding, Jingjing ^d   Jiang, Zhigang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Guangdong Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d Jiangsu Academy of Forestry   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY HYPOTHESIS; HABITAT; HABITAT HETEROGENEITY HYPOTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RENEWABLE ENERGY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84859985336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035514     Document Type: Article

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