How was the Australian flora assembled over the last 65 million years? A molecular phylogenetic perspective

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 303-324

  Crisp, Michael D ^a   Cook, Lyn G ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal; Diversification; Ecological opportunity; Fire; Sclerophylly; Turnover; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION; FLORA; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RAINFOREST; TAXONOMY; TURNOVER; VICARIANCE;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; FABACEAE; MYRTACEAE; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 84888598402     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135910     Document Type: Review

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