Distribution patterns of land snails in Ugandan rain forests support the existence of Pleistocene forest refugia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1759-1768

  Wronski, Torsten ^a   Hausdorf, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Biotic elements; Land snails; Nestedness; Rapoport effect; Refuge theory; Species diversity; Uganda; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODEL TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NESTEDNESS; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM; SAMPLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLUG; SNAIL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONGO; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 52049118492     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01933.x     Document Type: Article

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