The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5818, 2007, Pages 1574-1576

  Weir, Jason T ^a   Schluter, Dolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIVERGENCE; EXTINCTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; RELATEDNESS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRTH; DEATH; HAPLOTYPE; LATITUDE; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SISTER SPECIES; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33947248885     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135590     Document Type: Article

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