The evolutionary history of sigmodontine rodents in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 495-513

  Pardiñas, Ulyses F J ^a   Teta, Pablo ^b   D'Elía, Guillermo ^c   Lessa, Enrique P ^d  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Argentina; Cricetidae; Extinctions; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Refugia; Sigmodontinae

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HABITAT TYPE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUATERNARY; REFUGIUM; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

PATAGONIA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

CRICETIDAE; RODENTIA; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 79957689802     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01679.x     Document Type: Article

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