Contingency and determinism in mammalian biogeography: The role of history

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-360

  Patterson, Bruce D ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Extinction; Fossils; Island biogeography; Nested subsets; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0000293903     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383284     Document Type: Review

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