Latitudinal variation of diversity in European freshwater animals is not concordant across habitat types

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 539-546

  Hof, Christian ^a,c,d   Brändle, Martin ^a,b   Brandl, Roland ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Virtual Institute Macroecology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diversity; Dispersal; Europe; Freshwater; Glaciations; History; Latitude; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44949249818     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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