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  <dc:contributor>Robert R. Dunn</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Matthew C. Fitzpatrick</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Christopher E. Carlton</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Michael R. Pogue</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Charles R. Parker</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Theodore R. Simons</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Nathan J. Sanders</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2009</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Why does the number of species vary geographically? The earliest naturalists puzzled over this question, as do many biogeographers and macroecologists today. Over the last 200-plus years, the most striking geographic pattern in species richness – the decline in species richness with increasing latitude – has received the most attention. Thanks to many recent theoretical developments, coupled with global-scale databases and satellite technology, the number of candidate mechanisms that shape the latitudinal diversity gradient has been whittled down to a manageable number.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1201/9781420083705.ch10</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>CRC Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Diverse elevational diversity gradients in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.: Chapter 10</dc:title>
  <dc:type>chapter</dc:type>
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