How general are global trends in biotic homogenization? Floristic tracking in Chile, South America

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 524-531

  Castro, Sergio A ^a,b   Jaksic, Fabian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bbiotic change; Bbiotic differentiation; Bbiotic homogenization; Beta diversity; Biotic tracking; Chile; Extinctions; Ffloristic tracking; Iinvasions; Sspecies turnover

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXTINCTION; FLORISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NATIVE SPECIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRACKING; VASCULAR PLANT;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44949219175     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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