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Jennifer L Williams1, Bruce E Kendall2, Jonathan M Levine3

  • 1Department of Geography and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2, Canada. jennifer.williams@geog.ubc.ca.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 30, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

進化は種の拡散を 劇的に加速させることができます 特に断片化された地域ではです これらの進化の動態を理解することは 生物の侵入や 種の範囲の拡大を予測するのに 極めて重要です

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