Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6801, 2000, Pages 180-182

  Qian, Hong ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

ASIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034648789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35025052     Document Type: Article

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