A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1181-1192

  Gómez, Juan Pablo ^a   Bravo, Gustavo A ^b   Brumfield, Robb T ^b   Tello, José G ^c,d   Cadena, Carlos Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antbirds; Niche conservatism; Phenotypic structure; Phylogenetic community structure; Phylogenetic signal

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; ECOREGION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SONGBIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AVES; THAMNOPHILIDAE;

EID: 77958573089     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01725.x     Document Type: Article

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