Evolutionary diversification and the origin of the diversity-environment relationship

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Community; Diversity gradient; History; Local determinism; Phylogeny; Saturation; Speciation; Species packing; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 33749821487     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[3:edatoo]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Review

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