Epiphytic bryophytes of Quercus forests in Central and North inland Iberian Peninsula
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UAM. Departamento de BiologíaPublisher
International Biogeography SocietyDate
2015-04-01Citation
Frontiers in Biogeography 7.1 (2015): 21-28ISSN
1948-6596Funded by
The fieldwork was funded by the Spanish Government through grants CGL2007-61389, CGL2010-15693 and CGL2011-28857. N.G.M. was supported by a PhD grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (grant number AP2007-00905)Project
Gobierno de España. CGL2007-61389; Gobierno de España. CGL2010-15693; Gobierno de España. CGL2011-28857; Gobierno de España. AP2007-00905Subjects
Bryophyte; Database; Epiphyte; Forest; Mediterranean; Scale dependency; Climate; BotánicaNote
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© 2015 the authors; journal compilation; © 2015 The International Biogeography SocietyAbstract
Diversity patterns are governed by a complex network of interacting factors. Studies directed to disentangle the most important factors affecting diversity have frequently shown divergent results, which has encouraged a rewarding debate about the relative importance of each factor. Scale dependency has been identified as a direct cause of at least part of such divergences. However, studies with spatially-explicit measurements at different scales are costly and therefore they are relatively scarce despite their importance. Here, we present a database to disentangle the cross-scale variation in the importance of factors affecting the diversity of epiphytic bryophyte communities in Quercus dominated forests (Quercus ilex L., Quercus pyrenaica Willd. and Quercus faginea Lam.) in the North-western region of the Iberian Peninsula. We provide species-per-site abundance information with more than 9000 entries and an environmental table containing 20 in situ measured variables at three different scales (forest, stand, and sample). The database will help to advance the research of cross-scale effects of diversity patterns while at the same time providing valuable information on the distribution of a poorly known group of organisms
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Google Scholar:García Medina, Nagore
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Lara García, Francisco
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Mazimpaka Nibarere, Vicente
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Hortal, Joaquin
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Albertos Bofarull, Belén
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Alonso, Irene
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