The assembly of montane biotas: Linking Andean tectonics and climatic oscillations to independent regimes of diversification in Pionus parrots

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1624, 2007, Pages 2399-2408

  Ribas, Camila C ^a,b   Moyle, Robert G ^c   Miyaki, Cristina Y ^b   Cracraft, Joel ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Diversification; Historical biogeography; Montane biotas; Psittacidae; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MONTANE FOREST; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

PIONUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 34548770070     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0613     Document Type: Article

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