The relative roles of environment and history as controls of tree species composition and richness in Europe

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1019-1033

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Skov, Flemming ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Canonical ordination; Climate; Dispersal limitation; Diversity gradients; History; Plant migration; Plant species distributions; Species richness; Temperate trees; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLORISTICS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGALES;

EID: 20144371369     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01219.x     Document Type: Article

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