Fine-scale quantification of floral and faunal breaks and their geographic correlates, with an example from south-eastern Australia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1862-1876

  Di Virgilio, Giovanni ^a   Laffan, Shawn W ^a   Ebach, Malte C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Beta diversity; Biogeographic breaks; Bioregionalization; Phytogeography; Spatial turnover; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FLORA; LITHOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILE; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; BRIGALOW BELT; HUNTER VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY BASIN;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84866330192     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02739.x     Document Type: Article

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