Can the tropical conservatism hypothesis explain temperate species richness patterns? An inverse latitudinal biodiversity gradient in the New World snake tribe Lampropeltini

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 406-415

  Pyron, R Alexander ^a,b   Burbrink, Frank T ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Latitudinal diversity gradients; Niche conservatism; Rapoport's rule; Snakes; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; SNAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

SERPENTES;

EID: 66949174824     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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