Restricciones ecológicas a la diversificación en un modelo de radiación adaptativa

Rees Kassen1, Martin Llewellyn, Paul B Rainey

  • 1Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. rkassen@uottawa.ca

Nature
|October 22, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

Factores ambientales como la energía y las perturbaciones dan forma al tamaño de la radiación adaptativa. Demasiado o muy poco puede limitar el número de nuevas especies, lo que afecta a la diversificación evolutiva.

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