Limited filling of the potential range in European tree species

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 565-573

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Skov, Flemming ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Kalø   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelope modelling; Climate; Dispersal limitation; History; Macroecology; Plant species distributions; Post glacial recolonization; Potential distribution; Realized potential geographical range size ratio; Temperate trees

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; MACROECOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; TREE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 3042779077     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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