Metabolic Theory of Ecology and diversity of continental zooplankton in Brazil=A Teoria Metabólica da Ecologia e a diversidade do zooplâncton continental no Brasil
Several ecological hypotheses try to explain geographical patterns in biodiversity. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) predicts that temperature is the main determinant of richness patterns for ectothermic organisms and that the relationship between richness (lnS) and temperature (1/kT) is a line...
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Universidade Estadual de Maringá
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Acta Scientiarum : Biological Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/download/9087/pdf |