Historical biogeography of the Brazilian Atlantic forest and the Carnaval-Moritz model of Pleistocene refugia: What do phylogeographical studies tell us?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 499-509

  de Mello Martins, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest dynamics; North south division; Phylogeography; Pleistocene vicariance; Refuge theory; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOME; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; REFUGE; VERTEBRATE; VICARIANCE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054688387     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01745.x     Document Type: Article

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