Where have all the trees gone? The declining use of phylogenies in animal behaviour journals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 667-670

  Price, J Jordan ^a   Clapp, Mary K ^a   Omland, Kevin E ^b  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Ethology; Evolution; Literature; Phylogeny; Tinbergen tree

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79851512396     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.12.004     Document Type: Note

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