When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid‐domain effect

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2007-05-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1466-8238.2006.00284.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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