Gis-based niche models reveal unifying climatic mechanisms that maintain the location of avian hybrid zones in a North American suture zone

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 717-725

  Swenson, N G ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Biosciences West   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Geographic information system; Great Plains; Hybridization; Predictive model; Range boundaries; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYBRIDIZATION; NICHE; PLEISTOCENE; SUTURE ZONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 33646466356     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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