Assessment of the relationships of geographic variation in species richness to climate and landscape variables within and among lineages of North American freshwater fishes

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2259-2269

  Knouft, Jason H ^a   Page, Lawrence M ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Climate; Elevation; Latitudinal gradients; Niche conservatism; North America; Partial regression; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution maps

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CHANNEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

PISCES;

EID: 81255160926     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02567.x     Document Type: Article

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