Repeated trans-Atlantic dispersal catalysed a global songbird radiation

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-49

  Voelker, Gary ^a   Rohwer, Sievert ^b   Outlaw, Diana C ^a,c   Bowie, Rauri C K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Dispersal; Divergence times; Palaeoclimates; Pliocene; Sweepstake colonization; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENETICS; SONGBIRD;

PASSERI; TURDUS; TURDUS THRUSHES;

EID: 57649128316     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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