Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5352-5357

  Samonds, Karen E ^a   Godfrey, Laurie R ^b   Ali, Jason R ^c   Goodman, Steven M ^d,e   Vences, Miguel ^f   Sutherland, Michael R ^b   Irwin, Mitchell T ^a   Krause, David W ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e ASSOCIATION VAHATRA   (Madagascar)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal distributions; Biogeography; Endemism; Evolutionary history; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; MADAGASCAR; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; MADAGASCAR; OCEANS AND SEAS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859476850     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113993109     Document Type: Article

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