Are the Northern Andes a species pump for Neotropical birds? Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical tanagers (Aves: Thraupini)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-343

  Sedano, Raul E ^a,b   Burns, Kevin J ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Biogeography; Birds; Dispersal vicariance analysis; Molecular phylogeny; MtDNA; Neotropics; Tanager taxonomy; Tangara; Thraupis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY; VICARIANCE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANDES; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; EMBERIZINAE; TANGARA; THRAUPINI; THRAUPIS;

EID: 74849126964     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02200.x     Document Type: Article

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