Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores

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

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13709-13714

  Whittaker, Robert J ^a,b   Rigal, François ^c   Borges, Paulo A V ^c   Cardoso, Pedro ^c,d,e   Terzopoulou, Sofia ^c,f   Casanoves, Fernando ^g   Pla, Laura ^h   Guilhaumon, François ^c,i   Ladle, Richard J ^a,j   Triantis, Kostas A ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^h Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^j FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

Arthropods; Assembly rules; Habitat destruction; Island biogeography; Saturation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AZORES; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907279848     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218036111     Document Type: Article

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