Water-energy and the geographical species richness pattern of European and North African dragonflies (Odonata)

Abstrakt

We studied geographic distribution of species richness of European and North-African dragonflies. We correlated the sp. richness with 11 environmental variables and found Actual Evapotranspiration (amount of available energy) to be the best predictor.

Klíčová slova

• Autocorrelation
• Europe
• metabolic theory
• northern Africa
• Odonata
• species richness
• species-energy hypothesis