Explaining patterns in modern ruminant diversity: Contingency or constraint?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 657-672

  Heywood, James J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Biogeography; Bovidae; Cervidae; Hypsodonty; Selenodonty; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RUMINANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOTH;

ANTILOCAPRIDAE; BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE; GIRAFFIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 77952868638     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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