Plio-Pleistocene climate change and geographic heterogeneity in plant diversity-environment relationships

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Normand, Signe ^a   Skov, Flemming ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HETEROGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63849158619     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05732.x     Document Type: Article

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