Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 898-906

  Zellweger, Florian ^a,b   Roth, Tobias ^c,d,e   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Bollmann, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Hintermann and Weber SA   (Switzerland)

^e Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne   (France)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; biodiversity; biotic interactions; community ecology; ecological networks; environmental filtering; habitat complexity; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 85020199612     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12598     Document Type: Article

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