Climate, history and neutrality as drivers of mammal beta diversity in Europe: Insights from multiscale deconstruction

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-402

  Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Fløjgaard, Camilla ^a   Baselga, Andrés ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Historical factors; Ice age refugia; Macroecology; Mammal community assembly; Peninsular effect; Pleistocene ice ages; Post glacial recolonization; Species composition; Vertebrate species distributions

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; LATITUDE; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; NESTEDNESS; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECOLONIZATION; REFUGIUM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551594331     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01771.x     Document Type: Article

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