Climatic niche evolution and species diversification in the Cape flora, South Africa
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Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11789, USA, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, 04318, Leipzig, Germany, Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, 79106, Freiburg, Germany, Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, Université Joseph Fourier, UMR-CNRS 5553, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, CH 8008, Zurich, Switzerland
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تاریخ انتشار 2012