Relating plant traits and species distributions along bioclimatic gradients for 88 Leucadendron taxa

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1688-1699

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Lavorel, Sandra ^b   Midgley, Guy ^c,d   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a   Rebelo, Tony ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Floristic region, South Africa; Climatic niches; Dispersal mode; Flowering phenology; Gradient analysis; Leucadendron; Morphological traits; Niche breadth; Niche position; Outlying mean index analysis (OMI)

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NICHE BREADTH; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY;

LEUCADENDRON;

EID: 4444254063     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0148     Document Type: Article

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