The macroecology of rapid evolutionary radiation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1717, 2011, Pages 2486-2494

  Parnell, Nicholas F ^a   Todd Streelman, J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cichlid; Community assembly; Null models; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLOPATRY; ASSEMBLY RULE; CICHLID; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; MACROECOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATER DEPTH;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CICHLID; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; CICHLIDS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI;

CICHLIDAE;

EID: 79960129412     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1950     Document Type: Article

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