Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States

The assembly of species into communities and ecoregions is the result of interacting factors that affect plant and animal distribution and abundance at biogeographic scales. Here, we empirically derive ecoregions for mammals to test whether human disturbance has become more important than climate and habitat resources in structuring communities.

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  2024

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  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

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  2024-06-27

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.13900
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