Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Couvreur, Thomas L P ^a   Porter Morgan, Holly ^b,c   Wieringa, Jan J ^d,e   Chatrou, Lars W ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c University of New York   (United States)

^d Wageningen Branch   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOPATRY; BIOME; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIOCENE; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE OVERLAP; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RAINFOREST; RELATEDNESS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TROPICAL FOREST;

EAST AFRICA;

ANNONACEAE; ISOLONA; MONODORA;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANNONACEAE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANNONACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80053640095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-296     Document Type: Article

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