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Sea level, topography and island diversity: phylogeography of the Puerto Rican Red-eyed Coquí, Eleutherodactylus antillensis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2012
Barker Brittany S, Rodríguez-Robles Javier A, Aran Vani S, Montoya Ashley, Waide Robert B, Cook Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
Quaternary climatic oscillations caused changes in sea level that altered the size, number and degree of isolation of islands, particularly in land-bridge archipelagoes. Elucidating the demographic effects of these oscillations increases our understanding of the role of climate change in shaping evolutionary processes in archipelagoes. The Puerto Rican Bank (PRB) (Puerto Rico and the Eastern Islands, which...
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