The causes of species richness patterns across space, time, and clades and the role of"ecological limits"

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 75-96

  Wiens, John J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Diversity; Ecological limits; Ecology; Evolution; Extinction; Paleontology; Phylogeny; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959577298     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659883     Document Type: Review

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