Ice age legacies in the geographical distribution of tree species richness in Europe

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 234-245

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Skov, Flemming ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Kalø   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversity gradients; Endemism; Energy; History; Pleistocene ice ages; Quaternary; Range size; Spatial autoregressive modelling; Species pool

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDEMISM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33847230203     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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