Comparison of climate space and phylogeny of Marmota (Mammalia: Rodentia) indicates a connection between evolutionary history and climate preference

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1562, 2005, Pages 519-526

  Davis, Edward Byrd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate and evolution; Geographic information system; Mammalian speciation; Marmota; Palaeoclimate reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; PALEOBIOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA; MARMOTA; RODENTIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARMOTA; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18344385163     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2979     Document Type: Article

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