When history matters: Scale, time, climate and tree diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 309-314

  McGlone, Matt S ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate; Diversity; Palaeoecology; Quaternary; Tree richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001728838     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997586     Document Type: Article

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