Evolution of the climatic niche in scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae, Polypodiopsida)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Bystriakova, Nadia ^a,b   Schneider, Harald ^b   Coomes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral characters; Biogeography; Climatic envelopes; Maximum likelihood; Niche conservatism; Niche divergence; Ordination

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERN; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NICHE; ORDINATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION;

CYATHEACEAE; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 78650045150     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01092.x     Document Type: Article

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