Mistaking geography for biology: Inferring processes from species distributions

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 572-580

  Warren, Dan L ^a   Cardillo, Marcel ^b   Rosauer, Dan F ^b   Bolnick, Daniel I ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity turnover; Biogeography; Community phylogenetics; Ecological niche modelling; Evolutionary ecology; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; DECADAL VARIATION; NICHE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907997339     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.08.003     Document Type: Review

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