The West Indies as a laboratory of biogeography and evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1502, 2008, Pages 2393-2413

  Ricklefs, Robert ^a   Bermingham, Eldredge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Colonization; Diversification; Extinction; Island biogeography; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LIZARD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; LESSER ANTILLES; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANOLIS; AVES; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 45249105067     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2068     Document Type: Review

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