The role of wing length in the evolution of avian flightlessness

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 569-580

  McCall, Robert A ^a   Nee, Sean ^a   Harvey, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Energetics; Flightlessness; Wing length

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EVOLUTION; FLIGHTLESSNESS; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0031947037     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006508826501     Document Type: Article

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