Island biogeography is not a single-variable discipline: the small island effect debate
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Small island biogeography in the Gulf of California: lizards, the subsidized island biogeography hypothesis, and the small island effect
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عنوان ژورنال: Diversity and Distributions
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1366-9516
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00812.x