Climate tolerance and interspecific variation in geographic range size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1514, 2003, Pages 475-481

  Pither, Jason ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate variability hypothesis; Geographic range size; Macroecology; Physiological tolerance; Tree biogeography

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MACROECOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE SIZE;

CLIMATE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREEZING; GEOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LATITUDE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0037423863     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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