Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Hortal, Joaquín ^a   Carrascal, Luis Mariá ^a   Triantis, Kostas A ^b,c,d   Theb́ault, Elisa ^e   Meiri, Shai ^f   Sfenthourakis, Spyros ^g  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

EID: 84878959514     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301663110     Document Type: Letter

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