A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary
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little attention has been devoted to understanding the underlying causes of non-random patterns (Collins et al. 2011, Gotelli and Ulrich 2012). It is clear that environmental factors (e.g. habitat differences and climate gradients) have been and continue to be major factors structuring many Ecography 37: 001–014, 2014 doi: 10.1111/ecog.00779 © 2014 The Authors. Ecography © 2014 Nordic Society Oikos Subject Editor: Jenny McGuire. Accepted 11 May 2014
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