Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: tests of causal hypotheses.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  1998-03-31

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.95.7.3699PMID 9520429PMCID PMC19899
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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