Species richness and range size of the terrestrial mammals of the world: biological signal within mathematical constraints.

We explore global spatial diversity patterns for terrestrial mammals using as a tool range-diversity plots. These plots display simultaneously information about the number of species in localities and their spatial covariance in composition. These are highly informative, as we show by linking range-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jorge Soberón, Gerardo Ceballos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3089617?pdf=render