Tropical niche conservatism as a historical narrative hypothesis for the Neotropics: A case study using the fly family Muscidae

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1936-1947

  Löwenberg Neto, Peter ^a   de Carvalho, Claudio J B ^b   Hawkins, Bradford A ^c  

^a Avenida Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeographical regions; Cenozoic; Central America; Climate change; Eocene; Historical biogeography; Maxent; Muscidae; South America; Supertree

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EOCENE; FLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATRIX; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NICHE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; RANGE EXPANSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; MUSCIDAE;

EID: 80052697118     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02540.x     Document Type: Article

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