Adding more ecology into species delimitation: Ecological niche models and phylogeography help define cryptic species in the black salamander (aneides flavipunctatus)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 924-942

  Rissler, Leslie J ^a   Apodaca, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneides; California; Maxent; Niche modeling; Salamanders; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

ANEIDES; ANEIDES FLAVIPUNCTATUS; CAUDATA; PLETHODONTIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; URODELA;

EID: 36248992880     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150701703063     Document Type: Article

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