Climatic history and dispersal ability explain the relative importance of turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-197

  Dobrovolski, Ricardo ^a   Melo, Adriano S ^a   Cassemiro, Fernanda A S ^a   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dispersal abilities; Glaciation; Latitudinal gradients; New World; Past climate change; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial turnover; Temperature tolerance

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; EXTINCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAST GLACIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; NESTEDNESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855547474     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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