Speciation and the neutral theory of biodiversity: Modes of speciation affect patterns of biodiversity in neutral communities

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 564-570

  Kopp, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecological drift; Holey adaptive landscapes; Neutral theory of biodiversity; Speciation; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954858935     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000023     Document Type: Review

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