Climatic and historical factors controlling horizontal and vertical distribution patterns of two sympatric beech species, Fagus crenata Blume and Fagus japonica Maxim., in eastern Japan

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-170

  Hara, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatic envelope; Dispersal limitation; Geographic range; Post glacial migration; Range limit; Snowfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DATABASE; DICOTYLEDON; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POSTGLACIAL;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

FAGUS; FAGUS CRENATA; FAGUS JAPONICA;

EID: 76949106108     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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