Species richness and morphological diversity of passerine birds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 14482-14487

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Niche packing; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DIET; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FORAGING; MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEAK; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; PASSERIFORMES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84865960600     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212079109     Document Type: Article

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