Parsimony in vicariance biogeography: A quantitative method and a greater antillean example

Systematic Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 315-328

  Kluge, Arnold G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogedgraphy; Coevolution; Dispersal; Epicrates; Greater Antilles; Missing taxa; Phylogenetic systematics; Sympatric taxa; Vicariance; Widespread taxa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963009286     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/37.4.315     Document Type: Article

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