Fuzzy chorotypes as a conceptual tool to improve insight into biogeographic patterns

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 645-660

  Olivero, Jesús ^a   Real, Raimundo ^a   Márquez, Ana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; biogeographic patterns; distribution; ecological factors; fuzzy chorotypes; fuzzy logic; geographic attractors; history

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 80051980857     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr026     Document Type: Article

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