Did biotic impoverishment facilitate phenomenal diversification in Sri Lanka?

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1021-1025

  Biswas, Sayantan ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Dispersal; Extinction; Island colonization; South Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949134397     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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