Tom Radomski (@tomradomski.bsky.social)

Glad to have this review published! Worked on it on-and-off for roughly 10 years. Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Revisiting Rapoport’s Rule: The History of an Idea and Alternative Explanations for Latitudinal Variation in Geographic Range Size | The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 100, No 2 Abstract In 1989, George Stevens described a frequently observed positive relationship between range size and latitude, which he dubbed “Rapoport’s Rule.” To varying levels of success, Stevens linked ... https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736000