On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: Identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Hurlbert, Allen H ^a,b   Stegen, James C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance; Diversification; Latitudinal gradient; Simulation; Speciation rate; Species richness; Zero sum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; HYPOTHESIS; LATITUDINAL RICHNESS GRADIENT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

EID: 84917692353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00420     Document Type: Article

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