The relative importance of geography and ecology in species diversification: Evidence from a tropical marine intertidal snail (Nerita)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1515-1528

  Frey, Melissa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age range correlation; Allopatric speciation; Habitat; Intertidal zonation; Marine snail; Phylogeny; Range overlap; Speciation; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CORRELATION; DIVERGENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

GASTROPODA; NERITA;

EID: 77954713950     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02283.x     Document Type: Article

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