Determining the influence of continental species-richness, island availability and vicariance in the formation of island-endemic bird species

Biodiversity Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 137-150

  McCall, Robert A ^a   Nee, Sean ^a   Harvey, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Comparative method; Endemism; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ENDEMISM;

EID: 0030319986     PISSN: 09679952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2999732     Document Type: Article

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