Phylogenetic structure of mammal assemblages at large geographical scales: Linking phylogenetic community ecology with macroecology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1577, 2011, Pages 2545-2553

  Cardillo, Marcel ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Diversification; Extinction; Macroevolution; Null models; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOME; CARNIVORE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOREGION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79961081169     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0021     Document Type: Article

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