River density and landscape roughness are universal determinants of linguistic diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1784, 2014, Pages

  Axelsen, Jacob Bock ^a,b   Manrubia, Susanna ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Environment; Landscape roughness; Language area relationship; Linguistic diversity; River systems

Indexed keywords

DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VACCINE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LANGUAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER SYSTEM; ROUGHNESS;

ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VACCINATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; METHODS; STANDARDS; VACCINATION; VACCINES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84898670671     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3029     Document Type: Article

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