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11607494

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
19
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
"Rapoport's rule," which has gained wide acceptance as a potential explanation for latitudinal and other diversity gradients, holds that mean latitudinal range of species decreases toward the equator. We analyzed latitudinal ranges of 2838 eastern Pacific marine molluscan species, a subset of which figured in the original formulation of Rapoport's rule, and failed to find the predicted trends. Instead, species diversity gradients and range magnitudes appear to vary independently, with the spatial distribution of major oceanographic barriers exerting a strong influence on latitudinal ranges. Biogeographic structure should, therefore, be an important element in the assessment of diversity patterns.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8871-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-14
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Eastern Pacific molluscan provinces and latitudinal diversity gradient: no evidence for "Rapoport's rule".
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article