Refugia and phylogeography of Taiwania in East Asia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1992-2005

  Chou, Yen Wei ^a   Thomas, Philip I ^b   Ge, Xue Jun ^c   Lepage, Ben A ^d,e   Wang, Chun Neng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PECO Energy Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenozoic relicts; Chloroplast DNA; Cupressaceae; Divergence time; Endemism; Genetic differentiation; Glacial refugia; Range fragmentation; Taiwania cryptomerioides

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHLOROPLAST; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFUGIUM; SHRUB;

ASIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; TAIWANIA; TAIWANIA CRYPTOMERIOIDES;

EID: 80052744908     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02537.x     Document Type: Article

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