Global angiosperm family richness revisited: Linking ecology and evolution to climate

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1253-1266

  Hawkins, Bradford A ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel Á ^b   Weller, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Climate richness relationships; Diversity gradients; Family richness; Global diversity; Niche conservatism; Plant richness; Range size; Tropical conservatism hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; HERB; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RANGE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79959331575     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02490.x     Document Type: Article

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