The Relationship Among Area, Elevation, And Regional Species Richness In Neotropical Birds

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1997-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/286028PMID 18811253
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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