Small clades at the periphery of passerine morphological space

American Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 651-659

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Diversification; Morphology; Passerine birds; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAK; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; TAIL; TOE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TAIL; TARSUS, ANIMAL; TOES; WING;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 19944378409     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429676     Document Type: Article

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