Differential effects of environmental heterogeneity on global mammal species richness

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1072-1083

  Stein, Anke ^a   Beck, Jan ^b   Meyer, Carsten ^a   Waldmann, Elisabeth ^c   Weigelt, Patrick ^a   Kreft, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate; Grain size; Habitat diversity; Heterogeneity measures; Macroecology; Spatial scale; Topography; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; HETEROGENEITY; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84938987606     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12337     Document Type: Article

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