Correlation between endemism and local ecoclimatic stability documented by comparing Andean bird distributions and remotely sensed land surface data

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-78

  Fjeldså, Jon ^a   Lambin, Eric ^b   Mertens, Benoit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AVES;

EID: 0032994104     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00455.x     Document Type: Article

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