Universal species–area and endemics–area relationships at continental scales

David Storch (), Petr Keil and Walter Jetz
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David Storch: Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jilská 1, 110 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic
Petr Keil: Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8106, USA
Walter Jetz: Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8106, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7409, 78-81

Abstract: The change in number of terrestrial vertebrate species or endemics with sampled area is characterized by universal curves whose properties depend only on the mean geographic range size of species.

Date: 2012
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