Environmental and spatial controls of palm (arecaceae) species richness across the Americas

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 423-429

  Bjorholm, Stine ^a,c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Skov, Flemming ^b   Balslev, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c Aid of GIS Techniques ^*

Author keywords

America; Arecaceae; Climate; Latitudinal diversity gradient; Macroecology; Palms; Spatial richness patterns; Spatial scale; Variation partitioning; Water energy dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARECACEAE;

EID: 28244501028     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822x.2005.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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