Several million years of stability among insect species because of, or in spite of, Ice Age climatic instability?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1442, 2004, Pages 209-214

  Coope, G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Coleoptera; Ecology; Evolution; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; INSECT; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1242321522     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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