Environmental causes for plant biodiversity gradients
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Environmental causes for plant biodiversity gradients.
One of the most pervasive patterns observed in biodiversity studies is the tendency for species richness to decline towards the poles. One possible explanation is that high levels of environmental energy promote higher species richness nearer the equator. Energy input may set a limit to the number of species that can coexist in an area or alternatively may influence evolutionary rates. Within f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1524