Experimental biogeography: The role of environmental gradients in high geographic diversity in Cape Proteaceae

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-162

  Latimer, Andrew M ^a   Silander Jr , J A ^b   Rebelo, A G ^c   Midgley, G F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cape Floristic Region; Endemism; Experimental biogeography; Proteaceae; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; DICOTYLEDON; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION GROWTH;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; GERMINATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

PROTEA; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 64749087720     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1275-3     Document Type: Article

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