The latitudinal diversity gradient through deep time: Testing the "Age of the Tropics" hypothesis using carboniferous productidine brachiopods

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 563-581

  Leighton, Lindsey R ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Center of origin; Diversity; Latitudinal gradients; Paleobiogeography

Indexed keywords

LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 27744478275     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-005-1021-1     Document Type: Article

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