Evidence supporting the recent origin and species status of the Timberline Sparrow

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 577-588

  Klicka, John ^a   Zink, Robert M ^a   Barlow, Jon C ^b   Mcgillivray, W Bruce ^c   Doyle, Terry J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^d Ten Thousand Isl Natl Wild life R   (United States)

Author keywords

Late pleistocene speciation; Morphometrics; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Species limits; Spizella breweri; Spizella taverneri

Indexed keywords

SPIZELLA BREWERI; SPIZELLA TAVERNERI;

EID: 0032808798     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370187     Document Type: Article

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