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Environmental Drivers of Plant Diversity by Bort Edwards is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document examines the environmental drivers of species diversity and turnover in 14 North American tribes of the plant family Compositae. It analyzes over 1.9 million collection records from over 3,000 species, mapped to grid cells. Diversity centers correspond to regions in western and southwestern US and central/northern Mexico, known for diverse and variable environments. 187 environmental variables are reduced through correlation analysis to a final model of 7-16 significant variables representing c
- Author
- Bort Edwards
- Language
- EN