Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition--environment relationship in the contiguous USA.
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SUBMITTER: Kent R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3181324 | biostudies-literature | 2011
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Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition--environment relationship in the contiguous USA.
Kent Rafi R Bar-Massada Avi A Carmel Yohay Y
PloS one 20110927 9
Relationships between species composition and its environmental determinants are a basic objective of ecology. Such relationships are scale dependent, and predictors of species composition typically include variables such as climate, topographic, historical legacies, land uses, human population levels, and random processes. Our objective was to quantify the effect of environmental determinants on U.S. mammal composition at various spatial scales. We found that climate was the predominant factor ...[more]
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