Species delimitation: Inferring gaps in morphology across geography

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-194

  Zapata, Felipe ^a,b,c   Jiménez, Iván ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; morphological variation; normal mixture; operational criteria; species limits; tolerance limit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ESCALLONIA;

EID: 84857301402     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr084     Document Type: Article

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