Amazonian lowland, white sand areas as ancestral regions for South American biodiversity: Biogeographic and phylogenetic patterns in Potalia (Angiospermae: Gentianaceae)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-57

  Frasier, Cynthia L ^a   Albert, Victor A ^b   Struwe, Lena ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ecological speciation; Geology; Neotropics; Phylogeny; Potalieae

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SAND; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMAZON BASIN; BOLIVIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; GUYANA SHIELD; ORINOCO BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

ANTHOCLEISTA; GENTIANACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POTALIA; POTALIEAE;

EID: 39749090673     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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