Biogeography and contemporary climatic differentiation among Moroccan Salamandra algira

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 626-641

  Beukema, Wouter ^a   De Pous, Philip ^a,b   Donaire, David ^c   Escoriza, Daniel ^d   Bogaerts, Serge ^c   Toxopeus, Albertus G ^e   De Bie, Cornelis A J M ^e   Roca, Josep ^f   Carranza, Salvador ^f  

^a VAN HALL LARENSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b Society for the Preservation of Herpetological Diversity   (Netherlands)

^c Calle Mar Egeo 7 ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

MAXENT; Mitochondrial DNA; Morocco; Phylogeography; Species distribution modelling; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYTOCHROME; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAND BRIDGE; MESSINIAN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEW SPECIES; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE; VIVIPARITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MARTIL; MIDDLE ATLAS; MOROCCO; RIF; TANGER-TETOUAN;

AMPHIBIA; MYA; SALAMANDRA; SALAMANDRA ALGIRA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 77958609590     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01506.x     Document Type: Article

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