Speciation, alpha diversity and extinction in neotropical ectotherms :effects of paleobiogeographic and climatic processes

"In chapter 1 we presented a case of study, the Neotropical skinks, which are difficult to identify and classify due to their conservative morphology (Miralles and Carranza, 2010). The continental populations of Mabuya distributed in Colombia have been assigned to three species: M. falconensis,...