Glacial refugia of temperate trees in Europe: Insights from species distribution modelling

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1117-1127

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Normand, Signe ^a   Kageyama, Masa ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cryptic refugia; Hind casting; Ice age refugia; Last Glacial Maximum; Maximum entropy species distribution modelling; Pleistocene; Pleniglacial vegetation; Range dynamics; Tree species distributions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HINDCASTING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREE;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 54049100087     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01422.x     Document Type: Article

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