How does ecological opportunity influence rates of speciation, extinction, and morphological diversification in new world ratsnakes (tribe lampropeltini)?

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 934-943

  Burbrink, Frank T ^a,b   Pyron, R Alexander ^a,b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependent models; Diversification; Ecological opportunity; Morphological disparity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SNAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

SERPENTES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; COLUBRIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77955010217     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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