Climate oscillations and species interactions: Large-scale congruence but regional differences in the phylogeographic structures of an alpine plant and its monophagous insect

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1487-1498

  Borer, Matthias ^a   Arrigo, Nils ^b   Buerki, Sven ^c,d   Naisbit, Russell E ^e   Alvarez, Nadir ^f  

^a Museum of Natural History Neuchâtel   (Switzerland)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AFLP; Congruence testing; Europe; Oreina gloriosa; Peucedanum ostruthium; Phylogeography; Procrustean analyses; Quaternary; Random walk model; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEETLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPERSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; HERB; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; ICE RETREAT; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIALIZATION; SUTURE ZONE;

ALPS;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; OREINA GLORIOSA; PEUCEDANUM OSTRUTHIUM;

EID: 84864001306     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02703.x     Document Type: Article

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