Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern european mountain ranges

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Lenoir, Jonathan ^a   Gégout, Jean Claude ^b,c   Guisan, Antoine ^d   Vittoz, Pascal ^d,e   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^f   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^f   Dullinger, Stefan ^g,h   Pauli, Harald ^h   Willner, Wolfgang ^g   Grytnes, John Arvid ⁱ   Virtanen, Risto ^j   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FILTRATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 78651090018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015734     Document Type: Article

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