Patterns of endemism and species richness in Malagasy cophyline frogs support a key role of mountainous areas for speciation

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1890-1907

  Wollenberg, Katharina C ^a   Vieites, David R ^b   Van Der Meijden, Arie ^c   Glaw, Frank ^d   Cannatella, David C ^e   Vences, Miguel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Cophylinae; Hotspot; Madagascar; Microhylidae; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; FROG; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; MOUNTAIN; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; MADAGASCAR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; COPHYLINAE; MICROHYLIDAE;

EID: 47749134913     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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