The European Far West: Miocene mammal isolation, diversity and turnover in the Iberian Peninsula

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1079-1093

  Casanovas Vilar, Isaac ^a   García Paredes, Israel ^c   Alba, David M ^d   van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W ^b   Moyà Solà, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Diversity; Europe; Evolutionary palaeoecology; Extinction; Geographical range; Iberian Peninsula; Neogene; Origination; Palaeobiogeography

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; DIVERSITY INDEX; EXTINCTION RISK; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISOLATION EFFECT; MAMMAL; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLIOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

MAMMALIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 77954077377     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02286.x     Document Type: Article

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