PACT in practice: Comparative historical biogeographic patterns and species-area relationships of the Greater Antillean and Hawaiian Island terrestrial biotas

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-557

  Eckstut, Mallory E ^a,b   Mcmahan, Caleb D ^a,c   Crother, Brian I ^a   Ancheta, Justin M ^d   Mclennan, Deborah A ^d   Brooks, Daniel R ^d  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Equilibrium theory; Greater Antilles; Hawaiian Islands; Hennig's progression rule; in situ diversification; Island biogeography; Taxon pulse dynamic; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; POWER LAW; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

GREATER ANTILLES; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 79958146695     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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