[Taxacom] Help on a literature reference

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 09:32 AM 3/17/2008, Jody Haynes wrote:
>That is an interesting concept. Out of curiosity, how does one go about
>estimating the overall speciation rate of one region compared to another,
>and is this actual or potential speciation?

I haven't seen the article in question.  I suspect they are thinking that 
there's two ways for a region to have high diversity: lots of lineages, or 
a few lineages that have proliferated there.  For example, the Lobelioideae 
in Hawaii are well over 100 species but represent a single clade.  That 
would "count for more" that 100 species representing 50 or more independent 
clades.


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