Diversification across the Australian Monsoonal Tropics: Comparing phylogeographic and demographic patterns within and between species of Cryptoblepharus skinks.

Abstract excerpt

Organisms vary in their ability to cope with environmental perturbations, and even closely related species can differ in their resilience to climate change. For example, generalists may be better at accommodating environmental change than specialists with a narrow ecological niche. However, many species are difficult to classify as "specialist" or "generalist", and may be merely adapted to distinct ecological...

Topics

• Animals
• Lizards
• Phylogeography
• Australia
• Tropical Climate
• Genetics, Population
• Genetic Variation
• Phylogeny
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem
• Sequence Analysis, DNA