Large-scale environmental correlates of forest tree distributions in Catalonia (NE Spain)

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 313-325

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Vayreda, Jordi ^b   Pino, Joan ^b   Sabate, Santi ^b   Lavorel, Sandra ^a   Gracia, Carles ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chorology; Classification tree analysis; Environmental gradients; Forest trees; Potential distribution maps; Realized niche; Spain

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST; NICHE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SPAIN; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0041764378     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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