Ecology and biogeography of plant communities associated with the post Plio-Pleistocene relict Rhododendron ponticum subsp. baeticum in southern Spain

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 456-472

  Mejías, José A ^a   Arroyo, Juan ^a   Marañón, Teodoro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Ecological amplitude; Growth rings; Neogene vegetation; Plant demography; Rhododendron ponticum; Riparian forest; Spatial heterogeneity; Species decline; Strait of Gibraltar

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HETEROGENEITY; NEOGENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; POPULATION DECLINE; REFUGE; RELICT COMMUNITY; RELICT SPECIES; RIPARIAN FOREST; SHRUB; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MALAGA [ANDALUCIA]; SIERRA DEL ALJIBE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

FILICOPHYTA; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PONTICUM;

EID: 33846911727     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01627.x     Document Type: Article

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