Species richness among birds: Body size, life history, sexual selection or ecology?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1422, 1999, Pages 933-939

  Owens, Ian P F ^a   Bennett, Peter M ^b   Harvey, Paul H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Body size; Life history; Sexual selection; Speciation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOWL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033532030     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0726     Document Type: Article

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