Historical climate modelling predicts patterns of current biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1187-1201

  Carnaval, Ana Carolina ^a   Moritz, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Biogeography; Brazil; Forest refugia; Holocene; Palaeoclimate modelling; Palynology; Phylogeography; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE MODELING; ENDEMISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BAHIA; BRAZIL; DOCE RIVER; PERNAMBUCO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 45249117221     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01870.x     Document Type: Article

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