Colonization and persistence ability explain the extent to which plant species fill their potential range

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 449-459

  Schurr, Frank M ^a,b   Midgley, Guy F ^c,d   Rebelo, Anthony G ^c   Reeves, Gail ^c   Poschlod, Peter ^e   Higgins, Steven I ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance occupancy relationship; Evolutionary species age; Macroecology; Mechanistic model; Phylogenetic comparative analysis; Plant metapopulation dynamics; Population extinction; Serotinous shrubs; Species range size; Wind driven seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; LONGEVITY; MACROECOLOGY; METAPOPULATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE SIZE;

PROTEACEAE;

EID: 34250343279     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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