SESAM - a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio-temporal patterns of species assemblages

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1433-1444

  Guisan, Antoine ^a   Rahbek, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community properties; Ecological assembly rules; Ecological niche modelling; Macroecological constraints; Species richness; Species sorting; Species source pool; Stacked species predictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960275810     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02550.x     Document Type: Editorial

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