Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  González Orozco, Carlos E ^a,f   Ebach, Malte C ^b   Laffan, Shawn ^b   Thornhill, Andrew H ^a,e   Knerr, Nunzio J ^a   Schmidt Lebuhn, Alexander N ^a   Cargill, Christine C ^a   Clements, Mark ^a   Nagalingum, Nathalie S ^c   Mishler, Brent D ^d   Miller, Joseph T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOME; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; LANDSCAPING; NONHUMAN; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; VASCULAR PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISPERSAL;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISPERSAL;

EID: 84899071552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092558     Document Type: Article

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