LATITUDINAL VARIATIONS IN ORGANIC DIVERSITY

1960/03/01 by Alfred G. Fischer · 816 citations
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paper · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1960.tb03057.x

published in Evolution 14(1), 64-81 (Oxford University Press)

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