Speciation rates decline through time in individual-based models of speciation and extinction

American Naturalist

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Chen, Anping ^b   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Pacala, Stephen W ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death models; Macroevolution; Neutral theory; Origination rate; Speciation rate

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HERITABILITY; MASS EXTINCTION; NEW TAXON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84881490038     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671184     Document Type: Article

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