Deconstructing the mammal species richness pattern in Europe - towards an understanding of the relative importance of climate, biogeographic history, habitat heterogeneity and humans

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-230

  Flojgaard, Camilla ^a   Normand, Signe ^a   Skov, Flemming ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climatic stability; Dispersal limitation; Diversity gradient; Endemism; Habitat diversity; Hindcasting; Post glacial recolonization; Species distribution modelling; Topography; Western Palaearctic

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; HINDCASTING; MAMMAL; MICROCLIMATE; PALEARCTIC ECOZONE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EUROPE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79551544577     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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