Geographic Range
On the heritability of geographic range sizes
... and geographic location of the speciation event that gave rise to a ...contemporary range expansions (Roy et ...in range expansion is complex (Roy et ...graphic range within each larval ...
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Geographic range and seasonal occurrence in British Columbia of two exotic ambrosia beetles as determined by semiochemical-based trapping
... High capture numbers within the known geographic range indicated successful establishment of both species (Table 1). Trypodendron domesticum predominated on the SFU campus, where red alder is the most ...
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Geographic range size and evolutionary age in birds
... species range sizes increase gradually over time, both Jablonski’s (1987) stasis model and the taxon cycle concept (Wilson 1961; Ricklefs & Cox 1972, 1978) predict that post-speciation, species’ ranges expand ...
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Physiological responses to elevated temperature across the geographic range of a terrestrial salamander
... Thermal sensitivity of physiological responses often varies among individuals from geographically distinct populations. In addition to hormonal changes, these responses can include whole- organism physiological ...
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Cowpox: reservoir hosts and geographic range
... It is generally accepted that the reservoir hosts of cowpox virus are wild rodents, although direct evidence for this is lacking for much of the virus’s geographic range. Here, through a combination of ...
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The distribution and abundance of an island population of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in the far north of their geographic range
... This study recorded the distribution of koalas in significantly different densities across differing vegetation types, with the highest density occurring in the habitat with the most desirable food species. However, the ...
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Heritability of geographic range sizes revisited : a reply to Hunt et al.
... that range size could in any meaningful sense be said to be heritable at the species ...of range sizes would be reflected in the range sizes of close relatives being unusually similar and the ...
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Factors influencing when species are first named and estimating global species richness
... wider geographic ranges and occurring in more northerly latitudes and closer to the Greenwich meridian of longitude have been described earlier ...wider geographic range (in terms of latitude and the ...
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An investigation into the evolutionary relationships of the North Island alpine ranunculus : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Plant Biology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand /
... Hypothesis 3: The polyploid Ranunculus nivicola extends the geographic range of alpine Ranunculus in the North Island into areas that would not be otherwise occupied by this genus.... Us[r] ...
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Articles
... native range might exist in a new region, whereas all the environments occupied by species B might exist – in fact, in the new region more en- vironments suitable for B might exist than were available in the ...
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Abundance, diversity, and feeding behavior of coral reef butterflyfishes at Lord Howe Island
... restricted geographic range is often associated with low abundance and high ecological ...and geographic range of these ...and geographic range, the single most abundant species ...
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Broad-Based Testing Compared to Local Testing of Families of Loblolly Pine for Resistance to Fusiform Rust and Growth Traits.
... broad geographic range of ...wide range of site means for the traits ...wide geographic area across the loblolly pine natural range east of the ...
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Fruit features in relation to the ecology and distribution of Acaena (Rosaceae) species in New Zealand
... between geographic range and fruit features, a one-way analysis of variance was carried out on the species distributions, based on percentage of 10 km grid squares occupied in New Zealand, versus the barb ...
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Assessment of protected area coverage of threatened ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae): a new analysis for New Zealand
... Our estimates of geographic range size varied greatly between the climate and full models. The two models predict generally consistent spatial patterns of individual species ranges and for species richness ...
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Articles
... To compare this new species with its morphologically similar congener (C. mira- bile), about 200 specimens of C. mirabile were analysed (see Suppl. material 1), using the same methods (fieldwork and examination of living ...
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Biologically representative and well-connected marine reserves enhance biodiversity persistence in conservation planning
... the geographic range of each biologi- cal feature (a species for ...small geographic regions (several to tens of kilometers), limiting insights into the complex relationship between biodiversity ...
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Drivers of mammalian extinction and decline
... current geographic range size is the most powerful of a suite of predictors of species decline rates, overshadowing the effects of other biological ...severe range decline has occurred in Australian ...
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Additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Oman: an updated list, new records and a description of two new species
... Geographic range: This species was described from Kazakhstan, and recorded from Oman (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996), and the Socotra Archipelago (Colli[r] ...
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First record of Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis) in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
... limited geographic range comprising the Pacific and Atlantic coastal temperate waters of five South American ...sixth range state for the species and expanding its known distribution range ...
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Macroecology and extinction risk correlates of frogs
... large geographic ranges, and fewer mountain ranges and archipelagos to restrict species dispersal than in the warm, wet ...the geographic range size ...and geographic range has been ...
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