Diversification rates have declined in the Malagasy herpetofauna

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1766, 2013, Pages

  Scantlebury, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Diversification rate; Diversity dependent diversification; Island biogeography; Madagascar

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENDEMISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HERPETOFAUNA; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

MADAGASCAR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MADAGASCAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84894484311     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1109     Document Type: Article

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