Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 849-863

  Colles, Audrey ^a   Liow, Lee Hsiang ^b   Prinzing, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Evolutionary dead end; Extinction and speciation; Generalist to specialist; Macroevolution; Niche breadth; Population decline; Resource use hypothesis; Specialization by choice and specialization by constraint; Species lifetime

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; NICHE BREADTH; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 67649967753     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01336.x     Document Type: Article

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