Local and regional palm (Arecaceae) species richness patterns and their cross-scale determinants in the western Amazon

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1001-1015

  Kristiansen, Thea ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a   Pedersen, Dennis ^a   Eiserhardt, Wolf L ^a   Grández, César ^b   Balslev, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Climatic stability; Diversity; Environmental filtering; Neotropical rain forests; Plant community ecology; Spatial scale; Species pool effects; Topography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; IMMIGRATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

ARECACEAE;

EID: 79958854682     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01834.x     Document Type: Article

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