Speciation on islands: What are we learning?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-52

  Emerson, Brent C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Competition; Divergence; Ernst Mayr; Extinction; Phylogeny; Predation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC MARKER; ISLAND; LEARNING; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

EID: 52649119694     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01120.x     Document Type: Review

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