We focused on taxa for which detailed phylogeographic studies (i.e., covering the entire range of the species) are available, and attempted to include a diversity of range sizes (narrow to broad), choosing 8 mammals, 4 reptiles, 4 amphibians, and 4 non-migratory birds (Table 1).
Given the diversity of the range of communities that we serve, be they geographic, ethnic, economic, lifestyle, it is impossible to satisfy all of these with a single vanilla product.
The investigators indicated that several processes were probably responsible for the high diversity of geographic range shifts among species and that this diversity made the identification of global patterns difficult.
The first point to note is that the sheer diversity of the range of countries from which nurses are being recruited has implications for policy and practice.
Moreover, this study produced preliminary data on the genetic diversity of native range populations, and provides a useful contribution for further comparative studies on successful aliens.
A constant influx of collaborators assures persistent and wide-ranging stimuli, with a great diversity of questions ranging from oxygen consumption of developing embryos to nitric oxide signaling in shark retinas.
With a diversity of conditions ranging from valleys, to ridges, plains and misty mountain tops there is habitat for a wide range of plant communities which have been comprehensively analysed and mapped.
But this mere fact gives rise to a remarkable diversity of clips, ranging from silent films through the Coen brothers.
There is also a pleasant diversity of media, ranging from paintings, sculpture and photography to DVD projections, film, video, installation and even children's book illustration.
The correspondence is distinguished by its sly philosophic humour and mandarin diversity of interests, ranging from the chivalric romances of Charlemagne to French structuralist theory.
This diversity of regime, ranging from church-minded Greece to ultra-secular France, is guaranteed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the (28-member) European Union.
