Community Assembly through Evolutionary Diversification and Dispersal in Middle Ammerican Treefrogs
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Community assembly through evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle American treefrogs.
How are ecologically diverse organisms added to local assemblages to create the community structure we see today? In general, within a given region or community, a given trait (character state) may either evolve in situ or be added through dispersal after having evolved elsewhere. Here, we develop simple metrics to quantify the relative importance of these processes and then apply them to a cas...
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تاریخ انتشار 2010