Neotropical biodiversity: Timing and potential drivers

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 508-513

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MEXICO; PLANT; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; MEXICO; PLANTS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 80052706768     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.05.011     Document Type: Review

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