Problematic issues of cladistics: 19. DARWIN'S published concept of the species as a niche and its present discussion

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-120

  Reif, Wolf Ernst ^a,b  

^a Institut für Geowissenschaften ^*

^b Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOSPHERE; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLADISTICS; DIACHRONISM; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

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