Global models for predicting woody plant richness from climate: Comment

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 255-259

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Montoya, Daniel ^b   Rodríguez, Miguel Á ^b   Olalla Tárraga, Miguel Á ^b   Zavala, Miguel Á ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; NOTE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RAIN; TREES;

EID: 34247145357     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[255:GMFPWP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Note

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