Latitude and rates of diversification in birds and butterflies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1425, 1999, Pages 1221-1225

  Cardillo, Marcel ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Latitudinal gradients; Sister groups; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BUTTERFLY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPICS;

AVES; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033594876     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0766     Document Type: Article

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