Quantifying island isolation - insights from global patterns of insular plant species richness

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 417-429

  Weigelt, Patrick ^a   Kreft, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DATA SET; IMMIGRATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; ISOLATED POPULATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

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EID: 84875663714     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07669.x     Document Type: Article

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