On the heritability of geographic range sizes

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 553-566

  Webb, Thomas J ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Geographic range size; Heritability; Molluscs; Speciation

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERITABILITY; RANGE SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0037392654     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368296     Document Type: Article

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