Environmental Determinants of Faunal Diversity
- 1 November 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 93 (873) , 337-342
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282092
Abstract
It should be possible to test the hypothesis that tropical faunas are more diversified as a result of selection for smaller niches, by assembling complete censuses for periglacial and southern areas of similar topography during different intervals of Pleistocene time.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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