Explosive evolutionary radiations: Decreasing speciation or increasing extinction through time?

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1866-1875

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a,b   Lovette, Irby J ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b 14850 erc25 cornelledu   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death model; Diversification; Extinction; Macroevolution; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SNAKE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47749105699     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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