Article
In search of a general theory of species' range evolution.
PLoS biology - 1 Jun 2018
Connallon Tim, Sgrò Carla M
Abstract excerpt
Despite the pervasiveness of the world's biodiversity, no single species has a truly global distribution. In fact, most species have very restricted distributions. What limits species from expanding beyond their current geographic ranges? This has been classically treated by ecologists as an ecological problem and by evolutionary biologists as an evolutionary problem. Such a dichotomy is false-the problem of...
Topics
- Biodiversity
- Biological Evolution
- Ecosystem
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Drift
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Biological
- Population Dynamics
- Species Specificity