Partitioning global patterns of freshwater fish beta diversity reveals contrasting signatures of past climate changes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 325-334

  Leprieur, Fabien ^a,b   Tedesco, Pablo A ^b   Hugueny, Bernard ^b   Beauchard, Olivier ^c   Dürr, Hans H ^d   Brosse, Sébastien ^e   Oberdorff, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Université de Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biogeography; Freshwater ecosystems; Geographical isolation; Historical climate stability; Niche limitation; Quaternary climate changes; Spatial turnover

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NESTEDNESS; NICHE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TURNOVER; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79952505107     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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