A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits
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A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits.
Understanding the factors that determine the geographic range limits of species is important for many questions in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. These limits arise from complex interactions among ecology and dispersal ability of species and the physical environment, but many of the underlying traits can be conserved among related species and clades. Thus, the range limits of spec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1232