Contrasting environmental and regional effects on global pteridophyte and seed plant diversity

Ecography

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 408-419

  Kreft, Holger ^a,b   Jetz, Walter ^c   Mutke, Jens ^d   Barthlott, Wilhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FERN; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GAMETOPHYTE; HUMID TROPICS; ISLAND; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPOROPHYTE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

FILICOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 78651262782     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06434.x     Document Type: Article

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