Ecology: Neutral ecological theory reveals isolation and rapid speciation in a biodiversity hot spot

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5741, 2005, Pages 1722-1725

  Latimer, Andrew M ^a   Silander Jr , John A ^a   Cowling, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; RAIN;

AMAZON RAIN FOREST; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; SHRUBLANDS; SPECIES-ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SCRUB; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; RAIN;

RAIN;

BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA; TREES;

EID: 24644500184     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115576     Document Type: Article

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29. Supported by NSF grant DEB008901 to J.A.S. and R.M.C. and by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to A.M.L. We are grateful to L. Mucina and S. Proches for assistance with CFR data sets, N. Pitman for providing Amazon data, P. Holmes Rebelo for vegetation survey data, and A. Rebelo and the Protea Atlas Project of the South African National Biodiversity Institute for interpretation. I. Koltracht provided code for numerical integration and B. McGill, R. Colwell, P. Linder, and three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments.