The hypothesis of adaptive radiation in evolutionary biology: hard facts about a hazy concept

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 747-761

  Soulebeau, Anaëlle ^a   Aubriot, Xavier ^a,b   Gaudeul, Myriam ^a   Rouhan, Germinal ^a   Hennequin, Sabine ^a   Haevermans, Thomas ^a   Dubuisson, Jean Yves ^a   Jabbour, Florian ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive radiation; Diversification; Islands; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DATABASE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84948575504     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-015-0220-z     Document Type: Article

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