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Lizards in an evolutionary tree : ecology and adaptive radiation in anoles /
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Organisms and environments ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis lizards. With about 400 species, Anolis has played an important role in the development of ecological theory and has become a model system exemplifying the integration of ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral studies to understand evolutionary diversification. This major work, written by one of t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 507 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-494) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943735 0520943732 |