Evolutionary lag times and recent origin of the biota of an ancient desert (Atacama-Sechura)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 11469-11474

  Guerrero, Pablo C ^a   Rosas, Marcelo ^b   Arroyo, Mary T K ^a   Wiens, John J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS   (Chile)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Evolutionary biogeography; Niche conservatism; Niche evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTA; CLIMATE; DESERT; DESERTIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOGEOGRAPHY; NICHE CONSERVATISM; NICHE EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILE; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; CHAETANTHERA; LIOLAEMUS; MALESHERBIA; NOLANA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84879928711     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308721110     Document Type: Article

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