Regional variation exaggerates ecological divergence in niche models

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 298-306

  Godsoe, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Cohesion species concept; Ecological divergence; Ecological niche model; Environmental gradients; Species delimitation; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950832773     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq005     Document Type: Article

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