Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1577, 2011, Pages 2536-2544

  Safi, Kamran ^a   Cianciaruso, Marcus V ^b   Loyola, Rafael D ^b   Brito, Daniel ^b   Armour Marshall, Katrina ^c   Diniz Filho, José Alexandre F ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Evolutionary history; Niche conservatism; Trait diversity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79959822715     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0024     Document Type: Article

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