Climate and species richness patterns of freshwater fish in North America and Europe

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 452-463

  Griffiths, David ^a   Mcgonigle, Chris ^a   Quinn, Rory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Climatic variability hypothesis; Freshwater fish; Historical effects; Physiological tolerance hypothesis; Rainfall; Spatial gradients; Species energy hypothesis; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893780447     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12216     Document Type: Article

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