AVAILABLE ENERGY AND SPECIES DIVERSITY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS WITH BEES (COMMUNITIES, FLOWERS, FORAGING).
A general biogeographic theory of insular species diversity, species-energy theory, is produced by replacing area in species-area models with a measure of available energy. Islands with more available energy support larger populations, which have lower extinction rates. Given similar immigration rat...
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The University of Arizona.
1984
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187808 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/187808 |