Environmental predictors of global parrot (Aves: Psittaciformes) species richness and phylogenetic diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-233

  Davies, Richard G ^a   Orme, C David L ^b   Webster, Andrea J ^c   Jones, Kate E ^d   Blackburn, Tim M ^c   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification rate; Energy hypothesis; Extinction rate; Habitat heterogeneity; Phylogenetic diversity; Speciation rate; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 33847225223     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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