Testing the impact of climate variability on European plant diversity: 320 000 Years of water-energy dynamics and its long-term influence on plant taxonomic richness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 673-679

  Willis, Katherine J ^a,b   Kleczkowski, Adam ^c   New, Mark ^a   Whittaker, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Cold tolerance; Diversity loss; Drought tolerance; Ecological traits; Macroecology; Palaeoecology; Plant richness; Pliocene; Water energy dynamics

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PLIOCENE; POLLEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL RECORD;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PLANT; POLLEN; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; POLLEN; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 34347261020     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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