Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?
Roger K Butlin,
Maria R Servedio,
Carole M Smadja,
Claudia Bank,
Nicholas H Barton,
Samuel M Flaxman,
Tatiana Giraud,
Robin Hopkins,
Erica L Larson,
Martine E Maan,
Joana Meier,
Richard Merrill,
Mohamed AF Noor,
Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos,
Anna Qvarnström
May 05, 2021
If there are no constraints on the process of speciation, then the number of species might be expected to match the number of available niches and this number might be indefinitely large. One possible constraint is the...