Impacts of niche breadth and dispersal ability on macroevolutionary patterns

American Naturalist

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 149-162

  Qiao, Huijie ^a   Saupe, Erin E ^b   Soberón, Jorge ^c   Townsend Peterson, A ^c   Myers, Corinne E ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton algorithm; Climate change; Diversification rates; Eurasia; Extinction; Simulation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE BREADTH; SIMULATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84978718092     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/687201     Document Type: Article

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