Modeling alpine plant distributions at the landscape scale: Do biotic interactions matter?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 231, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Meineri, Eric ^a   Skarpaas, Olav ^b   Vandvik, Vigdis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alpine; Biotic interactions; Lowland; Species distribution models; Veronica; Viola

Indexed keywords

ALPINE; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; LOWLAND; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; VERONICA; VIOLA;

FORECASTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

VERONICA; VERONICA ALPINA; VIOLA BIFLORA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 84856995624     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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