An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6115, 2013, Pages 74-78

  Holt, Ben G ^a   Lessard, Jean Philippe ^a   Borregaard, Michael K ^a   Fritz, Susanne A ^a,b   Araújo, Miguel B ^a,c,d   Dimitrov, Dimitar ^e   Fabre, Pierre Henri ^e   Graham, Catherine H ^f   Graves, Gary R ^a,g   Jønsson, Knud A ^e   Nogués Bravo, David ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Whittaker, Robert J ^a,h   Fjeldså, Jon ^e   Rahbek, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAP; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VERTEBRATE; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VERTEBRATE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871922008     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1228282     Document Type: Article

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