Body mass and foraging ecology predict evolutionary patterns of skeletal pneumaticity in the diverse "waterbird" clade

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1059-1078

  Smith, Nathan D ^a,b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Correlated evolution; Morphological convergence; Morphological evolution; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Skeletal pneumaticity

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIRD; BODY MASS; CLADISTICS; CORRELATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; BONE; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ANHINGIDAE; AVES; GAVIIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84859070035     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01494.x     Document Type: Article

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