Morphological shifts in island-dwelling birds: The roles of generalist foraging and niche expansion

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2147-2156

  Scott, Susan N ^a   Clegg, Sonya M ^a,b   Blomberg, Simon P ^a,c   Kikkawa, Jiro ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging; Generalism; Islands; Morphology; Niche; Zosterops

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENERALIST; ISLAND; NICHE BREADTH; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS;

EID: 0141762535     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00392.x     Document Type: Article

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