Testing a relict distributional pattern of fen plant and terrestrial snail species at the Holocene scale: A null model approach

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 742-755

  Hájek, Michal ^a   Horsák, Michal ^a   Tichý, Lubomír ^a   Hájková, Petra ^a   Dítě, Daniel ^b   Jamrichová, Eva ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Czech Republic; Dispersal limitation; Distribution pattern; Glacial relicts; Metacommunity; Molluscs; Refugia; Slovakia; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; CALCAREOUS SOIL; DEFORESTATION; DISPERSAL; FEN; HOLOCENE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; REFUGIUM; RELICT COMMUNITY; SNAIL;

CZECH REPUBLIC; SLOVAKIA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79951638400     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02424.x     Document Type: Article

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