Latitudinal gradients in North American avian species richness, turnover rates and extinction probabilities

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 626-636

  Karanth, Krithi K ^a,b   Nichols, James D ^c   Sauer, John R ^c   Hines, James E ^c   Yackulic, Charles B ^c  

^a Centre for Wildlife Studies   (India)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ECOREGION; EXTINCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; POLAR REGION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 84903304015     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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