Hypothesis testing in biogeography
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Crisp, Michael; Trewick, Steve A.; Cook, Lynette Gai
Description
Often, biogeography is applied only as a narrative addition to phylogenetic studies and lacks scientific rigour. However, if research questions are framed as hypotheses, biogeographical scenarios become testable. In this review, we explain some problems with narrative biogeography and show how the use of explicit hypotheses is changing understanding of how organisms came to be distributed as they are. Developing synergies between biogeography, ecology, molecular dating and palaeontology are...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2011 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62554 |
Source: | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.005 |
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