Post-glacial migration lag restricts range filling of plants in the European Alps

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 829-840

  Dullinger, S ^a,b   Willner, W ^b   Plutzar, C ^b,c   Englisch, T ^a   Schratt Ehrendorfer, L ^a   Moser, D ^b,d   Ertl, S ^a   Essl, F ^d   Niklfeld, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine plants; Dispersal capacity; Dispersal limitation; European Alps; Ice ages; Migration lag; Niche breadth; Plant distribution; Refugia; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DISPERSAL; HOLOCENE; MAPPING METHOD; MIGRATION; NICHE BREADTH; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; PROPAGULE; REFUGIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ALPS;

EID: 84863779515     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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