Unifying fossils and phylogenies for comparative analyses of diversification and trait evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 699-702

  Slater, Graham J ^a   Harmon, Luke J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Macroevolution; Palaeontology; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881605948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12091     Document Type: Editorial

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