Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales

Maud Mouchet; Christian Levers; Laure Zupan; Tobias Kuemmerle; Christoph Plutzar; Karlheinz Erb; Sandra Lavorel; Wilfried Thuiller; Helmut Haberl

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131924

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Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales

Maud Mouchet ,

* E-mail: maud.mouchet@mnhn.fr

Current address: UMR7204 CESCO, MNHN, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France
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Christian Levers,

Affiliation Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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Laure Zupan,

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France
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Tobias Kuemmerle,

Affiliations Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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Christoph Plutzar,

Affiliation Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070, Wien, Austria
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Karlheinz Erb,

Affiliation Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070, Wien, Austria
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Sandra Lavorel,

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France
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Wilfried Thuiller,

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000, Grenoble, France
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Helmut Haberl

Affiliations Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070, Wien, Austria, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales

Maud Mouchet,
Christian Levers,
Laure Zupan,
Tobias Kuemmerle,
Christoph Plutzar,
Karlheinz Erb,
Sandra Lavorel,
Wilfried Thuiller,
Helmut Haberl

Published: July 10, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131924

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