Combining food web and species distribution models for improved community projections

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4572-4583

  Pellissier, Loïc ^a   Rohr, Rudolf P ^b   Ndiribe, Charlotte ^c   Pradervand, Jean Nicolas ^c   Salamin, Nicolas ^c   Guisan, Antoine ^c   Wisz, Mary ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic interactions; Ecological niche modeling; Phylogeny; Plant herbivore interactions; Trophic network.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887521399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.843     Document Type: Article

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