The global diversity of birds in space and time

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7424, 2012, Pages 444-448

  Jetz, W ^a   Thomas, G H ^b   Joy, J B ^c   Hartmann, K ^d   Mooers, A O ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CRETACEOUS; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROECOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEABIRD; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WATERFOWL;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIME; TREE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANATIDAE; AVES; PICIDAE;

EID: 84869088692     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11631     Document Type: Article

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