Morphological response of songbirds to 100 years of landscape change in North America

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1577-1582

  Desrochers, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape ecology; Morphology; Museum specimens; Rapid evolution; Wing shape

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFFORESTATION; BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPLOITATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIMEN BANK; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATE FOREST; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; NORTH AMERICA; SONGBIRDS; WING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77953282957     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2202.1     Document Type: Article

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