The importance of temporal climate variability for spatial patterns in plant diversity

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1341-1349

  Letten, Andrew D ^a,b,c   Ashcroft, Michael B ^a,b,c   Keith, David A ^a,b,c   Gollan, John R ^b,d   Ramp, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PERSISTENCE; PLANT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84888871372     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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