Geomorphic controls on elevational gradients of species richness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1737-1742

  Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Carrara, Francesco ^a,b   Mari, Lorenzo ^c   Altermatt, Florian ^d,e   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^f   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,g  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Landscape connectivity; Macroecology; Metacommunity theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ELEVATIONAL CONNECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84959036822     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518922113     Document Type: Article

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