Comment on "disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients"

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6076, 2012, Pages

  Qian, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Xianli ^c   Zhang, Yangjian ^d  

^a RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LATITUDE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANT; TREE;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANTS; TREES;

EID: 84859152274     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216450     Document Type: Note

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