Plant species radiations: Where, when, why?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1506, 2008, Pages 3097-3105

  Linder, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diversification; Dynamic environments; Environmental stability; Extinction rate; Speciation rate; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; EXTINCTION; NEOGENE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; ANDES; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 49649111177     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0075     Document Type: Article

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