Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1038-1048

  Meier, Eliane S ^a   Kienast, Felix ^a   Pearman, Peter B ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c   Araújo, Miguel B ^d,e   Guisan, Antoine ^f   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; JUVENILE; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78650323221     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06229.x     Document Type: Article

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