Using historical biogeography to test for community saturation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1077-1085

  Pinto Sánchez, Nelsy Rocío ^a   Crawford, Andrew J ^a,b,c   Wiens, John J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá ^*  (Panama)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Biogeography; Community assembly; Dispersal; Great American Biotic Interchange; Local richness; Phylogeny; Saturation; Terrarana

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; DISPERSAL; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT AMERICAN BIOTIC INTERCHANGE; LETTER; LOCAL RICHNESS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATURATION; SOUTH AMERICA; TERRARANA;

AMPHIBIANS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; DISPERSAL; GREAT AMERICAN BIOTIC INTERCHANGE; LOCAL RICHNESS; PHYLOGENY; SATURATION; TERRARANA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84905229538     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12310     Document Type: Article

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