Influences of ecology and biogeography on shaping the distributions of cryptic species: Three bat tales in Iberia

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 150-162

  Santos, Helena ^a   Juste, Javier ^b   Ibáñez, Carlos ^b   Palmeirim, Jorge M ^c   Godinho, Raquel ^a   Amorim, Francisco ^a   Alves, Pedro ^d   Costa, Hugo ^d   de Paz, Oscar ^e   Pérez Suarez, Gonzalo ^e   Martínez Alos, Susana ^e   Jones, Gareth ^f   Rebelo, Hugo ^a,f  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Plecotus Estudos Ambientais Unipessoal Lda ^*  (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Cryptic species; Ecological niche; Maximum entropy modelling; Spatial PCA; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS; MYOTIS; PLECOTUS;

EID: 84898895711     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12247     Document Type: Article

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