Gains and losses of plant species and phylogenetic diversity for a northern high-latitude region

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1441-1454

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b   Nielsen, Scott E ^a   Stolar, Jessica ^a   Chen, Youhua ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate refugia; Ecological niche modelling; Ensemble forecast; Evolutionary diversity; Extinction risk; Range shift

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VULNERABILITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 84945931201     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12365     Document Type: Article

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