Can clade age alone explain the relationship between body size and diversity?

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Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-179

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   de Visser, Sara N ^a   Janzen, Thijs ^a   Olsen, Jeanine L ^a   Olff, Han ^a   Rosindell, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth death model; Cladogenesis; Diversification; Maximum likelihood; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860908800     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0075     Document Type: Article

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