Historical climate change and speciation: Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1443, 2004, Pages 515-538

  Pennington, R Toby ^a   Lavin, Matt ^b   Prado, Darién E ^c   Pendry, Colin A ^a   Pell, Susan K ^d   Butterworth, Charles A ^e  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^d NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Cladistic biogeography; Pleistocene refugia; Seasonally dry tropical forests; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANACARDIACEAE; CHAETOCALYX; FABACEAE; LOXOPTERYGIUM; NISSOLIA; POLYGONACEAE; RUPRECHTIA;

EID: 1642324511     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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