The abundant centre syndrome and species distributions: Insights from closely related species pairs in southern Africa

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 215-225

  Péron, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Altwegg, Res ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Cinnyris; Citizen science; Distribution; Occupancy models; Parisoma; Pycnonotus; Range limits; South Africa; Turdus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CONTACT ZONE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

AVES; PARISOMA; PYCNONOTUS; TURDUS;

EID: 84922519302     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12251     Document Type: Article

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