Geographic isolation and climate govern the functional diversity of native fish communities in European drainage basins

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1083-1095

  Schleuter, Diana ^a   Daufresne, Martin ^a   Veslot, Jacques ^a   Mason, Norman W H ^b   Lanoiselée, Cédric ^a   Brosse, Sébastien ^c   Beauchard, Olivier ^d   Argillier, Christine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; Environmental filtering; Europe; Functional divergence; Functional diversity; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Glaciations; Morphological traits; Native fish fauna

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISH; GLACIATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; MORPHOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867626950     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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