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A Comparison of Climatic Niches of the Same Alpine Plant Species in the Central Caucasus and the Alps

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Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment

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It has been known for years that the elevational and latitudinal range limits of plant taxa are likely to be correlated (e.g. Humboldt 1817; Pellissier et al. 2013; Randin et al. 2013) and the elevation-for-latitude correspondence model has for long attracted ecologists and biogeographers. However, comparisons of the environmental niche of a common set of native plant species between geographically isolated regions but sharing similar climatic conditions have rarely been achieved (but see Randin et al. 2006 in the Alps). The large number of shared alpine plant species between the Alps and the Caucasus and the increasing availability of georeferenced occurrences and climatic data offer now opportunities to perform such across-mountain range comparisons.

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  1. Musée et Jardins botaniques cantonaux, Av. de Cour 14bis, 1007, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christophe F. Randin

  2. Department of Ecology and Evolution DEE, University of Lausanne, 1015, Dorigny, Switzerland

    Christophe F. Randin & Antoine Guisan

  3. Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Loïc Pellissier

  4. Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Botanikuri str. 1, Tbilisi, Georgia

    George Nakhutsrishvili

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    George Nakhutsrishvili

  2. Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Otar Abdaladze

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Randin, C.F., Pellissier, L., Guisan, A., Nakhutsrishvili, G. (2017). A Comparison of Climatic Niches of the Same Alpine Plant Species in the Central Caucasus and the Alps. In: Nakhutsrishvili, G., Abdaladze, O., Batsatsashvili, K., Spehn, E., Körner, C. (eds) Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55777-9_5

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