Phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of the New Zealand stick insect clitarchus hookeri (white) support survival in multiple coastal refugia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 682-695

  Buckley, Thomas R ^a   Marske, Katharine ^a,b   Attanayake, Dilini ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modelling; Geographic parthenogenesis; Glacial refugia; New Zealand; Phasmatodea; Phylogeography; Stick insect

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REFUGIUM; SURVIVAL;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

CLITARCHUS; CLITARCHUS HOOKERI; HEXAPODA; PHASMATODEA;

EID: 77952060475     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02239.x     Document Type: Article

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