Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 224-233

  Rabosky, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birth death; Diversification; Diversity dependence; Extinction; Latitudinal gradient; Phylogeny; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865788269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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