A test of Metabolic Theory as the mechanism underlying broad-scale species-richness gradients

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2007-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1466-8238.2006.00275.X
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