Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 425-454

  Mayhew, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Dispersal evolution; Diversity; Extinction; Flight; Herbivory; Macroevolution; Phytophagy; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BODY SIZE; CLADOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; EGG; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; LATITUDE; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICS; TAXONOMY; TROPICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; INSECTS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34447332246     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00018.x     Document Type: Review

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