Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1576, 2011, Pages 2414-2425

  Davies Jonathan, T ^a   Buckley, Lauren B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diversification; Evolutionary history; Great american interchange; Megafaunal extinction

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960550162     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0058     Document Type: Article

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