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Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology

Although the poles are less diverse than the tropics, this decline shows substantial asymmetries between the hemispheres, suggesting that responses to environmental change may differ substantially in the north and the south.

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Autores principales: Chown, Steven L, Sinclair, Brent J, Leinaas, Hans P, Gaston, Kevin J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC526784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15547645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020406
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spelling pubmed-5267842004-11-16 Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology Chown, Steven L Sinclair, Brent J Leinaas, Hans P Gaston, Kevin J PLoS Biol Essay Although the poles are less diverse than the tropics, this decline shows substantial asymmetries between the hemispheres, suggesting that responses to environmental change may differ substantially in the north and the south. Public Library of Science 2004-11 2004-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC526784/ /pubmed/15547645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020406 Text en Copyright: © 2004 Chown et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Sinclair, Brent J
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Gaston, Kevin J
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title_full Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology
title_fullStr Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology
title_full_unstemmed Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology
title_short Hemispheric Asymmetries in Biodiversity—A Serious Matter for Ecology
title_sort hemispheric asymmetries in biodiversity—a serious matter for ecology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC526784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15547645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020406
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