Robert E. Ricklefs, Roger Earl Latham, Hong Qian, Global Patterns of Tree Species Richness in Moist Forests: Distinguishing Ecological Influences and Historical Contingency, Oikos, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Aug., 1999), pp. 369-373
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