Species Diversity--Scale Matters
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- 15 February 2002
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 295 (5558), 1245-1248
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1067335
Abstract
The marked gradient in species diversity between the equator (where it is highest) and the poles (where it is lowest) suggests a simple environmental explanation for this phenomenon. However, as Willis and Whittaker point out in their Perspective, the environmental variables driving species diversity are different depending on the size and time scale over which species diversity is measured.Keywords
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