Spatial Grain and the Causes of Regional Diversity Gradients in Ants.

Autor: Kaspari, Michael, Yuan, May, Alonso, Leeanne
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Zdroj: American Naturalist. Mar2003, Vol. 161 Issue 3, p459. 19p.
Abstrakt: Evaluates six hypotheses for diversity gradients with 49 New World ant communities, from tundra to rain forest. Goal to understand whether and how processes that generate the gradients of species richness act at different spatial scales; Coaction of two factors linked to high net rates of diversification.
Databáze: GreenFILE