Diaspore and shoot size as drivers of local, regional and global bryophyte distributions

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 610-619

  Virtanen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dispersal; GBIF; Occupancy; Rarity; Size; Spore

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BRYOPHYTE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIASPORE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; RARITY; SHOOT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPORE;

SCANDINAVIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 84898539204     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12128     Document Type: Article

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