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The Commonness, And Rarity, of Species

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Geographical ecology; patterns in the distribution of species

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Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts

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The Latitudinal Gradient in Geographical Range: How so Many Species Coexist in the Tropics

1989 • 1,768 citations

Energy and Large-Scale Patterns of Animal- and Plant-Species Richness

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Species diversity in ecological communities

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Changes in Plant Community Diversity and Floristic Composition on Environmental and Geographical Gradients

1988 • 1,679 citations

Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: The Search for the Primary Cause

1992 • 1,550 citations

Biological Determinants of Species Diversity

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Species-Energy Theory: An Extension of Species-Area Theory

1983 • 1,389 citations

Patterns of species abundance and diversity

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Population density and body size in mammals

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The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity

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Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources

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Structure and Organization of an Amazonian Forest Bird Community

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Large-scale biogeographical patterns of species richness of trees

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Nonbiological Gradients in Species Richness and a Spurious Rapoport Effect

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Minimal Community Structure: An Explanation of Species Abundance Patterns

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Global-scale latitudinal patterns of species diversity in the deep-sea benthos

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Species Diversity Gradients: We Know More and Less Than We Thought

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Global Patterns of Tree Species Richness in Moist Forests: Energy-Diversity Theory Does Not Account for Variation in Species Richness

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Evolution of Species Assemblages: Effects of Energetic Constraints and Species Dynamics on the Diversification of the North American Avifauna

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Patterns of communities in the tropics

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On the Notion of Favorableness in Plant Ecology

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Latitudinal patterns in European ant assemblages: variation in species richness and body size

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The relationship between abundance and body size in British birds

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Does Solar Energy Control Organic Diversity? Butterflies, Moths and the British Climate

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Ecological Aspects of the Geographical Distribution and Diversity of Mammalian Species

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Niche Apportionment or Random Assortment: Species Abundance Patterns Revisited

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Species number, species abundance and body length relationships of arboreal beetles in Bornean lowland rain forest trees

1988 • 256 citations

The tropics as a source of evolutionary novelty through geological time

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Colony Size as a Buffer Against Seasonality: Bergmann's Rule in Social Insects

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Patterns in tree species richness as a test of the glacial extinction hypothesis

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Latitudinal gradients in species diversity

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Global Scale Macroecology: Interactions between Population Size, Geographic Range Size and Body Size in the Anseriformes

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The Relationship between Abundance and Body Size in Natural Animal Assemblages

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Species richness and population dynamics of animal assemblages. Patterns in body size: abundance space

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The Peak in North American Ichneumonid Species Richness Lies Between 38 Degrees and 42 Degrees N

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What Is the Relationship between Population Density and Body Size in Animals?

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British bird species distributions and the energy theory

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Spatial patterns in the geographic range sizes of bird species in the New World

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The Allometric Scaling of Density and Body Mass: A Nonlinear Relationship for Terrestrial Mammals

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Global Patterns of Animal Abundance and Species Energy Use

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Explaining global termite diversity: productivity or history?

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Lifting the veil on abundance patterns

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Species diversity in temperate and tropical Ichneumonidae

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Patterns of biodiversity: tropical vs temperate

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The Macroecology of Cyprinella: Correlates of Phylogeny, Body Size, and Geographical Range

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Latitudinal gradients in butterfly body sizes: is there a general pattern?

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Patterns in species richness, size, and latitudinal range of East Atlantic fishes

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Geographical Ranges of Australian Mammals

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Species number, species abundance and body length of arboreal arthropods associated with an Australian rainforest tree

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