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Nathan J B Kraft1, Liza S Comita, Jonathan M Chase

  • 1Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. nkraft@biodiversity.ubc.ca

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 24, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

サンプリング方法だけでは,環境のグラデーションを越えて種多様性における観察されたパターンを説明することができます. 熱帯地域と温帯地域間のベータ多様性の違いは,種プールサイズを考慮すると消えて,既存の生態学理論に挑戦します.

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