Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Madriñán, Santiago ^a   Cortés, Andrés J ^a,b   Richardson, James E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Biogeography; Dated molecular phylogenies; Evolutionary radiation; Net diversification rates; P ramos; Plant evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885395615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00192     Document Type: Article

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