Patterns of Species Rarity as a Driving Mechanism for Species Richness Gradients

Broad scale geographic variation in species diversity correlates with environmental variables in most taxa, but a mechanistic understanding of this relationship has remained elusive. More than a half-century ago, F.W. Preston observed that the number of individuals per species in species assemblages...

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Main Author: Giles, Mark
Other Authors: Currie, David
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40587
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-24815