Phylogenetics and biogeographic approaches to the study of extinction: from timetrees to patterns of biotic assemblage

Global climate change and its impact on biodiversity levels have made extinction a relevant topic in biological research. Yet, until recently, extinction has received less attention in macroevolutionary studies than speciation; the reason is the difficulty to infer an event that actually eliminates...

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Main Authors: Isabel eSanmartin, Andrea S. Meseguer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2016.00035/full