Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the world's mangrove vegetation

American Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 805-810

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a   Schwarzbach, Andrea E ^b   Renner, Susanne S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive shift; Diversity anomaly; Historical biogeography; Mangrove; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

DIVERGENCE; MANGROVE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 33845243894     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508711     Document Type: Article

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