Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6948, 2003, Pages 542-545

  Losos, Jonathan B ^a   Leal, Manuel ^b,f   Glor, Richard E ^a   De Queiroz, Kevin ^c   Hertz, Paul E ^g   Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes ^d   Chamizo Lara, Ada ^d   Jackman, Todd R ^e   Larson, Allan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA   (Cuba)

^e VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

NICHE CONSERVATISM;

BIODIVERSITY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIZARD; NICHE;

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; CUBA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CUBA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; TREES;

EID: 0042568944     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01814     Document Type: Article

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