Rainforest refugia and evolution in Australia's Wet Tropics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1415, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Schneider, Chris ^a   Moritz, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pleistocene refugia; Speciation; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

EVOLUTION; LIZARD; RAINFOREST;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; FOREST; FOUNDER EFFECT; LIZARD; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIA;

SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033593286     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0621     Document Type: Article

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