Predicting spatial patterns of plant species richness: A comparison of direct macroecological and species stacking modelling approaches

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1122-1131

  Dubuis, Anne ^a   Pottier, Julien ^a   Rion, Vanessa ^a   Pellissier, Loïc ^a   Theurillat, Jean Paul ^b,c   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Fondation J M Aubert ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Macroecological models; Plants; Species richness; Stacked species distribution models; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ELEVATION; MACROECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POISSON RATIO; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 80054094311     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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