Hidden neotropical diversity: Greater than the sum of its parts

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5878, 2008, Pages 928-931

  Condon, Marty A ^a,b   Scheffer, Sonja J ^b,c,d   Lewis, Matthew L ^c   Swensen, Susan M ^e  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DROSOPHILA; FLOWER; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT SEED; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CUCUMBER; FLY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MEXICO; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CUCURBITACEAE; DIPTERA; FLOWERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 44249099015     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155832     Document Type: Article

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