The role of ecological constraint in driving the evolution of avian song frequency across a latitudinal gradient

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2773-2783

  Weir, Jason T ^a   Wheatcroft, David J ^b   Price, Trevor D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation; Evolutionary rates; Latitudinal gradient; New World birds; Ornstein Uhlenbeck model; Song frequency

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW WORLD ORDER; NOISE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; INSECT; MALE; NOISE; SINGING; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INSECTS; MALE; NOISE; SINGING; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84865733640     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01635.x     Document Type: Article

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