Macroevolution of life-history traits in passerine birds: Adaptation and phylogenetic inertia

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 571-576

  Pienaar, Jason ^a   Ilany, Amiyaal ^b,c   Geffen, Eli ^b   Yom Tov, Yoram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c University of Tennessee and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history traits; Macroevolution; Ornstein Uhlenbeck models; Passerines; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG; EVOLUTION; FLEDGING; INCUBATION; INDEPENDENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; OVUM; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84876728594     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12077     Document Type: Article

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