Distribution and speciation in marine intertidal tardigrades: Testing the roles of climatic and geographical isolation

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1596-1607

  Faurby, Søren ^a,b   Jørgensen, Aslak ^c   Kristensen, Reinhardt M ^c   Funch, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baas Becking hypothesis; Barnacles; Echiniscoides; Everything is everywhere; Geographical variation; Heterotardigrada; Improved Mantel test; Intertidal zone; Marine biogeography; Tardigrada

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ECHINISCOIDES; HETEROTARDIGRADA; TARDIGRADA; THORACICA;

EID: 84865192297     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02720.x     Document Type: Article

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