Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges.

BACKGROUND: The divergent glacial histories of southern and northern Europe affect present-day species diversity at coarse-grained scales in these two regions, but do these effects also penetrate to the more fine-grained scales of local communities? METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We carried out a c...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Lenoir, Jean-Claude Gégout, Antoine Guisan, Pascal Vittoz, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Niklaus E Zimmermann, Stefan Dullinger, Harald Pauli, Wolfgang Willner, John-Arvid Grytnes, Risto Virtanen, Jens-Christian Svenning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3008735?pdf=render