Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps

Ecography

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 578-589

  Nieto Lugilde, Diego ^a,b   Lenoir, Jonathan ^b,c   Abdulhak, Sylvain ^d   Aeschimann, David ^e   Dullinger, Stefan ^f,g   Gégout, Jean Claude ^h   Guisan, Antoine ⁱ   Pauli, Harald ^f   Renaud, Julien ^j   Theurillat, Jean Paul ^k,l   Thuiller, Wilfried ^j   Van Es, Jérémie ^d   Vittoz, Pascal ⁱ   Willner, Wolfgang ^g   Wohlgemuth, Thomas ^m   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^m   Svenning, Jens Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^d Gap   (France)

^e Laboratoire de Systématique végétale et Biodiversité   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^h CEMAGREF   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^k Fondation J M Aubert   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^m SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ADAPTATION; CANOPY; ELEVATION; FOREST COVER; HERB; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGE EXPANSION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SHADE TOLERANCE; SHRUB;

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EID: 84930171424     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00954     Document Type: Article

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