Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 800-808

  Le Roux, Peter C ^a   Virtanen, Risto ^b   Luoto, Miska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BRYOPHYTE; DISTURBANCE; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LATITUDE; LICHEN; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TUNDRA;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84879306430     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07922.x     Document Type: Article

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