Do ecological niche model predictions reflect the adaptive landscape of species?: A test using Myristica malabarica Lam., an endemic tree in the Western Ghats, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Nagaraju, Shivaprakash K ^a,e,f   Gudasalamani, Ravikanth ^a,b   Barve, Narayani ^d   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^c   Narayanagowda, Ganeshaiah Kotiganahalli ^a,b   Ramanan, Uma Shaanker ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^f Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOCLIM; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAXENT; MYRISTICA; MYRISTICA MALABARICA; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT REGENERATION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIA; MYRISTICACEAE; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84896724600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082066     Document Type: Article

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