Diversification and the adaptive radiation of the vangas of Madagascar

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1735, 2012, Pages 2062-2071

  Reddy, S ^a   Driskell, A ^b   Rabosky, D L ^c   Hackett, S J ^d   Schulenberg, T S ^e  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Diversification; Foraging strategies; Passerines; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COLONIZATION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ASIA; MADAGASCAR;

AVES; CORVOIDEA; MALACONOTINAE; VANGA;

EID: 84859386818     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2380     Document Type: Article

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