Ecological speciation in Darwin's finches: Parsing the effects of magic traits

Current Zoology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-19

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a   Dybboe, Rie ^b   Ole Jensen, Mads ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Horsens Statsskole   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bird song; Galapagos; Geographic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877696526     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/59.1.8     Document Type: Article

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