Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing

<p>Historical biogeography has been characterized by a large diversity of methods and unresolved debates about which processes, such as dispersal or vicariance, are most important for explaining distributions. A new R package, BioGeoBEARS, implements many models in a common likelihood framewor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholas Joseph Matzke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Biogeography Society 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers of Biogeography
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/44j7n141