Multi-extent analysis of the relationship between pteridophyte species richness and climate

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 588-601

  Bickford, Sophia A ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Environmental heterogeneity; Geographically local regression; Macro scale spatial analysis; Pteridophytes; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; PTERIDOPHYTE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 33750352835     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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