Evolution and ecology of species range limits

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 415-436

  Sexton, Jason P ^a   McIntyre, Patrick J ^a   Angert, Amy L ^b   Rice, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Adaptation; Biogeography; Biotic factors; Climate change; Gene flow; Geographic boundary; Geographic distribution; Geographic range; Invasive species; Mechanistic models; Natural selection; Niche evolution; Niche modeling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOLATION EFFECT; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE;

EID: 77951687815     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120317     Document Type: Article

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