Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: Insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Fitzpatrick, Matthew C ^a   Sanders, Nathan J ^b   Normand, Signe ^c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^d   Ferrier, Simon ^e   Gove, Aaron D ^f   Dunn, Robert R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Distance decay; Environmental gradients; Generalized dissimilarity modelling; History; Plant species distributions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLORA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; POPULATION MODELING; REGIONAL PATTERN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA; EUROPE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84898287756     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1201     Document Type: Article

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