Geographic range size, life history and rates of diversification in Australian mammals

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 282-288

  Cardillo, Marcel ^a,b   Huxtable, J S ^a,c   Bromham, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Environment Australia   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extinction; Phylogenies; Sister clades; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; RANGE SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; LITTER SIZE; MAMMAL; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; GEOGRAPHY; LITTER SIZE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037371141     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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