Plant species richness and environmental heterogeneity in a mountain landscape: Effects of variability and spatial configuration

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 573-584

  Dufour, Alexia ^a,b   Gadallah, Fawziah ^c   Wagner, Helene H ^b   Guisan, Antoine ^d   Buttler, Alexandre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HETEROGENEITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; JURA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 33845597335     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2006.04605.x     Document Type: Article

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