Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: Global congruence across mammals and amphibians

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2237-2247

  Olalla Tárraga, Miguel Á ^a,b   Mcinnes, Lynsey ^a   Bini, Luis M ^c   Diniz Filho, José A F ^c   Fritz, Susanne A ^d,e   Hawkins, Bradford A ^f   Hortal, Joaquín ^a,c,g   Orme, C David L ^a   Rahbek, Carsten ^d   Rodríguez, Miguel Á ^b   Purvis, Andy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cold tolerance; Diversification rates; Geographic distribution; Macroecology; Macroevolution; Phylogenetic niche conservatism; Range edges; Range size

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COLD TOLERANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MACROECOLOGY; MAMMAL; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; RANGE EXPANSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTICA;

AMPHIBIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 81255137002     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02570.x     Document Type: Article

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