Quaternary and pre-Quaternary historical legacies in the global distribution of a major tropical plant lineage

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 909-921

  Kissling, W Daniel ^a   Baker, William J ^b   Balslev, Henrik ^a   Barfod, Anders S ^a   Borchsenius, Finn ^a   Dransfield, John ^b   Govaerts, Rafaël ^b   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monocots; Niche conservatism; Palaeoclimate; Palmae; Plant species diversity; Pleistocene ice ages; Spatial eigenvector filters; Species energy theory; Tertiary; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EIGENVALUE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MONOCOTYLEDON; NICHE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERTIARY;

ARECACEAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 84860825145     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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