Use of juvenal plumage in diagnosing species limits: An example using buntings in the genus Plectrophenax

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 907-915

  Maley, James M ^a,b   Winker, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Juvenal plumage; Plectrophenax; Reflectance spectrophotometry; Species limits

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENE FLOW; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; PLUMAGE; REFLECTANCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EMBERIZA; PLECTROPHENAX; PLECTROPHENAX HYPERBOREUS; PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS;

EID: 34547777821     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[907:UOJPID]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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