Detecting shifts in diversity limits from molecular phylogenies: What can we know?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1722, 2011, Pages 3294-3302

  McInnes, Lynsey ^a   Orme, C David L ^a   Purvis, A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Diversification pulses; Diversity dependence; Extinction; Mammals

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; FOSSIL RECORD; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80053213575     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0241     Document Type: Article

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