Assessing New Zealand fern diversity from spatial predictions of species assemblages

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2217-2238

  Lehmann, A ^a,b   Leathwick, J R ^a   Overton, J McC ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspot; Climate; Generalized additive models; Generalized regression analysis and spatial predictions; Geographic information systems; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; FERN; GIS; LANDFORM; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NEW ZEALAND;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; FILICOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0036933905     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021398729516     Document Type: Article

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