Bioclimatic discriminant capacity of terrestrial mammal faunas

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-204

  Fernández, Manuel Hernández ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic spectrum; Bioclimatology; Biome; Discriminant analysis; Macroecology; Mammalia; Mammalian communities; Methodology; Palaeoclimatology

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE;

CHIROPTERA; INSECTIVORA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035018686     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.2001.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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