Climatic zonation drives latitudinal variation in speciation mechanisms
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Climatic zonation drives latitudinal variation in speciation mechanisms.
Many groups of organisms show greater species richness in the tropics than in the temperate zone, particularly in tropical montane regions. Forty years ago, Janzen suggested that more limited temperature seasonality in the tropics leads to greater climatic zonation and more climatic barriers to organismal dispersal along elevational gradients in the tropics relative to temperate regions. These ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1106