Testing the water-energy theory on American palms (Arecaceae) using geographically weighted regression.

Water and energy have emerged as the best contemporary environmental correlates of broad-scale species richness patterns. A corollary hypothesis of water-energy dynamics theory is that the influence of water decreases and the influence of energy increases with absolute latitude. We report the first...

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Main Authors: Wolf L Eiserhardt, Stine Bjorholm, Jens-Christian Svenning, Thiago F Rangel, Henrik Balslev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3207816?pdf=render