A morphospace-based test for competitive exclusion among flying vertebrates: Did birds, bats and pterosaurs get in each other's space?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1230-1236

  McGowan, Alistair J ^a   Dyke, G J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion; Cretaceous Paleogene; Flight; Legs; Morphospace; Wings

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIRD; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FLIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; PTEROSAUR; WING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; REPTILES; WING;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247494108     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01285.x     Document Type: Article

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