Endemic species have highly integrated phenotypes, environmental distributions and phenotype-environment relationships

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1583-1594

  Hermant, Marie ^a,b   Prinzing, Andreas ^a,c   Vernon, Philippe ^a   Convey, Peter ^d   Hennion, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abiotic environmental gradients; Endemism level; Functional biogeography; Island biogeography; Kerguelen Islands; Life history traits; Multi species comparison; Phenotypic integration; Range size; Sub Antarctic

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FLOWERING; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROHABITAT; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RANGE SIZE;

ANTARCTICA; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

EID: 84880510270     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12095     Document Type: Article

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