Suborbital climatic variability and centres of biological diversity in the Cape region of southern Africa

To explore the magnitude and spatial patterns of last glacial stage orbitally forced climatic changes and suborbital climatic fluctuations in southern Africa, and to evaluate their potential roles in determining present biodiversity patterns.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Biogeography

• Publication date

  2014-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jbi.12288
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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