Divergent timing and patterns of species accumulation in lowland and highland neotropical birds

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 842-855

  Weir, Jason T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversification rates; Neotropics; Pleistocene speciation; Refuge hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33745230793     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-272.1     Document Type: Article

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