Differential regional response of the bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) to late Quaternary climate change

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-305

  Hornsby, Angela D ^a   Matocq, Marjorie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence dating; Ecological niche model; Great Basin; Mitochondrial DNA; Montane; Neotoma cinerea; Palaeomidden; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Western North America

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT TYPE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NICHE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; VICARIANCE;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

CRICETIDAE; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA CINEREA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84855820316     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02616.x     Document Type: Article

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