The Cape element in the Afrotemperate flora: From Cape to Cairo?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1609, 2007, Pages 535-543

  Galley, Chloé ^a   Bytebier, Benny ^b   Bellstedt, Dirk U ^b   Linder, H Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Ancestral character reconstruction; Historical biogeography; Molecular dating; Phytogeography

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CLADISTICS; IMMIGRATION; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; EGYPT; FLORA; GENETIC LINE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLESIOMORPHY; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPICS; ANGIOSPERM; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

AFRICA; CAIRO [CAIRO (GVR)]; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

DISA; PENTASCHISTIS; RESTIONACEAE;

AFRICA; ANGIOSPERMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; GENETIC SPECIATION; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE;

EID: 34249931003     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0046     Document Type: Article

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