Geological habitat template overrides late Quaternary climate change as a determinant of range dynamics and phylogeography in some habitat-specialist water beetles

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 970-983

  Abellán, Pedro ^a   Arribas, Paula ^b   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Demographic history; Habitat connectivity; Hindcasting; Iberian Peninsula; Landscape genetics; Last Glacial Maximum; Mediterranean; Saline inland waters; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUATERNARY; SPECIALIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

COLEOPTERA; ENOCHRUS; NEBRIOPORUS BAETICUS; OCHTHEBIUS; OCHTHEBIUS GLABER;

EID: 84859860537     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02654.x     Document Type: Article

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