Relative role of contemporary environment versus history in shaping diversity patterns of China's woody plants

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1124-1133

  Wang, Zhiheng ^a,b   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Lin, Xin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84874211972     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06781.x     Document Type: Article

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