Correlates of species richness in North American bat families ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Aim A near universal truth in North America is that species richness increases from the Arctic Circle to the Central American tropics. Latitude is regarded as a major explanatory variable in species density, although it is only a surrogate for under...

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Main Author: Patten, Michael A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2004
Subjects:
bat
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13437234
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13437234
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Aim A near universal truth in North America is that species richness increases from the Arctic Circle to the Central American tropics. Latitude is regarded as a major explanatory variable in species density, although it is only a surrogate for underlying ecological variables. I aimed to elucidate those underlying ecological variables that are associated with variation in bat species richness across the entire North American continent, providing a portrait of the macroecology of the order Chiroptera and its familial components. ...