Habitat specifity, endemism and the neotropical distribution of Amazonian white-water floodplain trees

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 690-707

  Wittmann, Florian ^a   Householder, Ethan ^b   Piedade, Maria T F ^b   De Assis, Rafael L ^c   Schöngart, Jochen ^a   Parolin, Pia ^d   Junk, Wolfgang J ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e Inst Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Áreas Úmidas INCT INAU   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOME; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FLORISTICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84878149374     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07723.x     Document Type: Article

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