Geographic range limits of species
Geographic range limits of species
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2009.0100
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发表时间：
2009-04-22
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Gaston, K. J.
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作者：
Gaston, K. J.
了解物种的地理范围限制的形式，其原因和后果是生态学和进化生物学的关键问题。它们也是人们对它们的理解正在迅速推进的主题。这一期的Proc. R。学会B侧重于目前关于地理范围界限的性质和决定因素的各种研究观点。这些贡献涉及重要的主题，包括扩散限制的作用和影响，物种相互作用和生理限制，地理范围结构的广泛模式，以及为什么在某些时候物种不再进化克服限制其分布的因素的能力，从而无法继续传播的根本问题。在本导言中，将这些贡献置于这些广泛主题的更广泛背景下。
Understanding the forms that the geographic range limits of species take, their causes and their consequences are key issues in ecology and evolutionary biology. They are also topics on which understanding is advancing rapidly. This themed issue of Proc. R. Soc. B focuses on the wide variety of current research perspectives on the nature and determinants of the limits to geographic ranges. The contributions address important themes, including the roles and influences of dispersal limitation, species interactions and physiological limitation, the broad patterns in the structure of geographic ranges, and the fundamental question of why at some point species no longer evolve the ability to overcome the factors constraining their distributions and thus fail to continue to spread. In this introduction, these contributions are placed in the wider context of these broad themes.