Evolution, insular restriction, and extinction of oceanic land crabs, exemplified by the loss of an endemic geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Paulay, Gustav ^a   Starmer, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOGRAPSUS; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOTA; BRACHYURA; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES;

AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; GEOGRAPSUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 79956094867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019916     Document Type: Article

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