Lizard community structure along environmental gradients
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Lizard community structure along environmental gradients.
1. How the total number of individuals in a community is divided among its species is governed by both the distribution of species along landscape-scale environmental gradients and by local resource partitioning. In vertebrate ectotherms, abiotic environmental conditions may constrain geographic distributions more strongly than local population densities due to thermal constraints on resource a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Ecology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-8790,1365-2656
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01612.x