Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 741-754

  Cook, Lyn G ^a   Crisp, Michael D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancestral areas; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Australia; Directional dispersal; Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; New Zealand; Southern hemisphere; Trait optimization; West wind Drift

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

EID: 20044373081     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01261.x     Document Type: Article

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