The evolution of viviparity opens opportunities for lizard radiation but drives it into a climatic cul-de-sac

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 857-867

  Pincheira Donoso, Daniel ^a,b   Tregenza, Tom ^a   Witt, Matthew J ^a   Hodgson, Dave J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Climate change; Climatic envelope; Extinction; Liolaemus; Lizards; South America; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; LIZARD; NICHE; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; VIVIPARITY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

LIOLAEMUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 84879181996     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12052     Document Type: Article

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