Why do species co-occur? a test of alternative hypotheses describing abiotic differences in sympatry versus allopatry using spadefoot toads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chunco, Amanda J ^a   Jobe, Todd ^b   Pfennig, Karin S ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Signal Innovations Group Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAXENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SPEA BOMBIFRONS; SPEA MULTIPLICATA; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; TOAD; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NORTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

PELOBATIDAE; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMPATRY;

EID: 84859113850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032748     Document Type: Article

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