Speciation along environmental gradients

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6920, 2003, Pages 259-264

  Doebeli, Michael ^a   Dieckmann, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GENES;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIRTH; DEATH; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037448542     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01274     Document Type: Article

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