Biogeographical regions and phytogeography of the eucalypts

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-58

  González Orozco, Carlos E ^a   Thornhill, Andrew H ^a   Knerr, Nunzio ^a   Laffan, Shawn ^b   Miller, Joseph T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Biomes; Endemism; Environmental drivers; Eucalypts; NMDS; Regionalization; Species richness; Species turnover sim

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDEMISM; HOT SPOT; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFALL; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUMMER; TREE; TURNOVER;

AUSTRALIA; MALAY PENINSULA;

ANGOPHORA; EREMAEA; EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 84890222867     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12129     Document Type: Article

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