Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an african songbird: Rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3162-3174

  Kirschel, Alexander N G ^a   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^c   Cohen, Rachel E ^d   de Kort, Selvino R ^e   Buermann, Wolfgang ^f   Smith, Thomas B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation; Andropadus virens; Bird song; Ecological speciation; Geographic isolation

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GLACIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MATE RECOGNITION; RAINFOREST; REFUGIUM; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAMEROON; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UGANDA; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAMEROON; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TREES; UGANDA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CAMEROON; UGANDA;

ANDROPADUS VIRENS; AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 80054940903     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01386.x     Document Type: Article

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