Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad-scale variation in taxonomic richness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1121-1134

  Currie, David J ^a   Mittelbach, Gary G ^b   Cornell, Howard V ^c   Field, Richard ^d   Guégan, Jean Francois ^e   Hawkins, Bradford A ^f   Kaufman, Dawn M ^g   Kerr, Jeremy T ^a   Oberdorff, Thierry ^h,k   O'Brien, Eileen ⁱ   Turner, J R G ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

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Author keywords

Climatic gradients; Latitudinal gradients; Productivity; Speciation; Species richness; Species energy theory

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; TOLERANCE;

EID: 9944219639     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00671.x     Document Type: Review

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