Limitations of climatic data for inferring species boundaries: insights from speckled rattlesnakes.

Phenotypes, DNA, and measures of ecological differences are widely used in species delimitation. Although rarely defined in such studies, ecological divergence is almost always approximated using multivariate climatic data associated with sets of specimens (i.e., the "climatic niche"); the...

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Main Authors: Jesse M Meik, Jeffrey W Streicher, A Michelle Lawing, Oscar Flores-Villela, Matthew K Fujita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479545?pdf=render