Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2403-2410

  Evans, Karl L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Frantz, Alain C ^a   Simeoni, Michelle ^a   Sharp, Stuart P ^a,d   McGowan, Andrew ^a,e   Dawson, Deborah A ^a   Walasz, Kazimierz ^b   Partecke, Jesko ^c   Burke, Terry ^a   Hatchwell, Ben J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Genetic divergence; Genetic diversity; Range expansion; Urban

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PALEARCTIC REGION; RANGE EXPANSION; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 66749116754     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1712     Document Type: Article

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