CAN RAPOPORT'S RULE BE RESCUED? MODELING CAUSES OF THE LATITUDINAL GRADIENT IN SPECIES RICHNESS.

From: Ecology | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: TAYLOR, PETER H.; GAINES, STEVEN D. | Copyright information

STEVEN D. GAINES [1]

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA

Abstract. The latitudinal gradient in species richness, wherein species richness peaks near the equator and declines toward the poles, is a widely recognized phenomenon that holds true for many taxa in all habitat types. Understanding the causative mechanism or mechanisms that generate the latitudinal gradient in species richn...

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