Palaeodistribution modelling and genetic evidence highlight differential post-glacial range shifts of a rain forest conifer distributed across a latitudinal gradient

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2292-2302

  Mellick, Rohan ^a,b   Lowe, Andrew ^b   Allen, Chris ^a   Hill, Robert S ^b   Rossetto, Maurizio ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clarence River Corridor; Environmental niche modelling; Haplotypic diversity; Isolation by distance; Last Glacial Maximum; Macleay Overlap Zone; Palaeodistribution; Podocarpus elatus; Rain forest conifer; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NICHE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; POSTGLACIAL; RAINFOREST; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AUSTRALIA; CLARENCE RIVER [NEW SOUTH WALES]; NEW SOUTH WALES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PODOCARPUS ELATUS;

EID: 84869866097     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02747.x     Document Type: Article

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