Water links the historical and contemporary components of the Australian bird diversity gradient

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1035-1042

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^b,c   Soeller, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversification rates; Diversity gradients; Mean root distance; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Species richness; Water energy balance

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES;

EID: 20044385064     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01238.x     Document Type: Article

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