The distribution of species diversity across a flora's component lineages: Dating the Cape's 'relicts'

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1598, 2006, Pages 2149-2158

  Warren, Ben H ^a   Hawkins, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cape flora; Divergence times; Palaeoendemics; Phylogeny; Relict lineages

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; PHYLOGENETICS; RELICT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FLORA; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EASTERN CAPE; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 33748269264     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3560     Document Type: Article

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