Evidence for multiple refugia at different time scales during Pleistocene climatic oscillations in southern Australia inferred from phylogeography

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 27-28, 2008, Pages 2576-2585

  Byrne, M ^a  

^a Crop Variety Testing Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; LOCATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA; BIOTIC RESPONSES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC CYCLES; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; DIFFERENT TIME SCALES; DRY ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES; GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; HAPLOTYPE DIVERSITIES; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; HISTORICAL PROCESSES; INTERGLACIALS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE EXPANSIONS; SANDY DESERTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPECIFIC LOCATIONS; TIME FRAMES; WET CONDITIONS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENEALOGY; HETEROGENEITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 56949087695     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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