Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity
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Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity.
The major clades of vertebrates differ dramatically in their current species richness, from 2 to more than 32,000 species each, but the causes of this variation remain poorly understood. For example, a previous study noted that vertebrate clades differ in their diversification rates, but did not explain why they differ. Using a time-calibrated phylogeny and phylogenetic comparative methods, I s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0506