Identifying contact zone hotspots of passerine birds in the Palaearctic region

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-23

  Aliabadian, Mansour ^a   Roselaar, Cees S ^a   Nijman, Vincent ^a   Sluys, Ronald ^a   Vences, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contact zone; Mid domain effect; Palaearctic; Parapatry; Passeriformes

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTACT ZONE; HOT SPOT; PALEARCTIC REGION; PARAPATRY; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PALEARCTIC; PASSERINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 27444432682     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0258     Document Type: Article

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