Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: Insights from range data and simulations

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 646-657

  Phillimore, Albert B ^a   Orme, C David L ^a   Thomas, Gavin H ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^b   Bennett, Peter M ^c   Gaston, Kevin J ^d   Owens, Ian P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allopatric; Birds; Geographic range; Phylogeny; Speciation; Sympatric

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

AVES;

EID: 42549168625     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587074     Document Type: Article

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