Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?

1959/05/01 by G. E. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn Hutchinson · 4,154 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies #Geography #Plant and animal studies #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1086/282070

published in The American Naturalist 93(870), 145-159 (University of Chicago Press)

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