The island syndrome in coastal wetland ecosystems: Convergent evolution of large bills in mangrove passerines

Auk

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-204

  Luther, David ^a,b   Greenberg, Russell ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bill morphology; Birds; Dominance hypothesis; Ecological convergence; Mangrove; Niche variation

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; COASTAL WETLAND; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DOMINANCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PASSERINE;

AVES; EMBERIZINAE; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79957486286     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.10262     Document Type: Article

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