Resilient forest faunal communities in South Africa: A legacy of palaeoclimatic change and extinction filtering?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1246-1264

  Lawes, Michael J ^a   Eeley, Harriet A C ^a   Findlay, Nicola J ^a,b   Forbes, Dale ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b KwaZulu Natal Department of Agriculture   (South Africa)

^c Asociación Amigos de Las Aves   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Climatic extinction filtering; Faunal dispersal; Forest faunas; Historical processes; Last glacial maximum; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SWAZILAND; ZIMBABWE;

ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34250768312     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01696.x     Document Type: Article

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